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Legendary aviator at one with the sky — DAVID DIXON —

Some people have a natural affinity for the air, the sea, the earth.

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im Hazelton’s was for the sky, his youngest daughter, Angie believes.

Friends and family next week are launching a book on the local flying legend to celebrate the life of this iconic aviator.

She said that her father — younger brother and co-founder with Max of local airline Hazelton’s — was a passionate pilot, rather than a driven businessman.

“He punched-out with Hazelton Airlines pretty early… but he loved flying, it was as simple as that, he was a great pilot,” Angie said proudly.

“He was a natural flyer, that’s the theme that comes through in the book, how calm, how tuned-in he was to the sky,” she added.

Becoming a flying instructor of some renown at Bankstown Aerodrome, she said her father was never happier than in the hazardous task of transporting small aircraft across the world’s vast oceans.

Such was Jim’s love of flying that he continued to ferry to the very end of his life. Amassing more than 50,000 hours in 130 aircraft types over 64 years – he criss-crossed the globe like few pilots of his generation.

“He ended up doing mostly ‘fairy flights’; bringing planes to Australia from all around the world,” Angie explained.

“The last one he did was all the way from Greece to a company in New Zealand. He loved them, he really did.”

Starting-off instructing pupils in old pre-World War II-era Tiger Moths in the early 1950s, he then thrived in the dangerous business of agricultural flying before taking-up ferrying in the 1960s.

She said that the only time her father flagged was after having a heart-valve operation following a heart-attack at a social cricket match in Spring Hill after which he was banned from flying.

The first Australian to fly the Pacific solo in a single-engine aircraft in 1964, Jim crossed the Pacific over 200 times, revelling in the hazardous business of ferrying light aircraft.

“This was for a couple of years, but he kept pushing and was eventually allowed to fly again,” she said.

“The sort of things he achieved in his lifetime were amazing; we talked about a book, but he was too modest and, in the end, had prostate cancer,” Angie said.

“We had been compiling some stuff, and then we met a person who had written aviation books, and we wanted to show the achievements with Dad who had such little beginnings in Orange,” she said.

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As well as older brother Max, flying seems in the blood of the Hazelton’s with Angie’s older brother a pilot with the former Ansett Airlines and her sister also an accomplished aviator flying in Cambodia.

is the quality she remembers most.

“I know what I miss, he had an energy and a vitality. He wasn’t a very wealthy man, but he squeezed the sh*& out of life, he was driven by his passion,” she recalled.

“I think he was that kind of person that needed to be challenging himself,” she added.

With the common temperamental link between aviators and racing car drivers, the book catalogues his friendships with Graham Hill and Jimmy Clarke, with Formula One legend, (Sir) Jackie Stewart writing a touching foreword for the book.

“He taught them all to fly and was great friends with all of them,” Angie said.

“One of his stories was, when he pulled-up at a petrol station with Jimmy Clarke, and there was a big billboard with Jimmy’s face on it advertising motor oil. My father said to the attendant ‘don’t you think he looks like Jimmy Clarke?’ and the attendant said, ‘No, I think you look more like Jimmy Clarke!’,” Angie laughed.

Her father, she added, came from an earlier Australia, in which business deals were sealed on a man’s honour, something, Angie says, that often proved a detriment to the family’s finances.

“I never felt scared when flying with him, but I tell you what did frighten me, when he was in a car, he was a terrible driver!” Angie said.

“He would agree on a handshake. He was one of those generation who trusted people — sometimes to his own detriment, but this never made him bitter. He was still as kind-hearted as ever.

The youngest of eight children to Jim and her mother, Pamela, she said her father’s life-force

“And that was just because of the kind of guy that he was,” Angie concluded.

JIM HAZELTON — BORN TO FLY Book launch for the Jim Hazelton biography is on Thursday, June 3.

Orange City Library, Byng Street, Orange 5.30–7pm Book your place online via Eventbrite or call 6393 8132.

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Help wanted, but not currently forthcoming Has anyone else noticed the number of shops in the main street with hand-written “Help Wanted” signs in their windows?

Even the most casual conversation with anyone in business finds the same thing — it’s hard getting new workers for almost any area of the economy.

Yet it seems only a few short weeks ago that, the ending of the JobKeeper payments was forecast to lead to thousands of Australians being thrown on the post-COVID lockdown scrapheap.

As Jack Evans from the Orange Business Chamber boldly predicted, that never really happened, did it?

We’ve found the same thing here at Orange City Life, currently advertising two positions but not exactly a rush at our door each morning with job applicants.

There are a number of plausible reasons for this; our governments did such a fine job handling the pandemic (largely through borrowed money) that the economic impact has been negligible; a post-pandemic bump of economic optimism; a new “live local, buy local” emphasis by people in The Colour City; and increased JobSeeker payments having discouraged the unemployed from taking low-paying jobs.

All of these could possibly be true, but what else has changed in our national economic profile in the past 14 months since we first hit the pandemic? Simply, no immigration, so no new workers to take-up the jobs at the bottom of the pay scale that are normally used as an entry to the labour market.

High immigration, we are endlessly told, is a plus for our economy and our society; it brings new skills into Australia, introduces us to new cultures, cuisines, and customs, and fills gaps in our labour market.

It generates growth, jobs, and increases our intellectual and human capital. While all of these things may be true, they’re not the full story.

High immigration adds to infrastructure costs — roads, schools, hospitals, and new suburbs — all largely-paid for by PAYG income earners; it increases congestion, housing, and accommodation shortages, and overcrowding in our major cities; and it depresses wages for the lowest-paid in our economy.

Business council studies showing that high immigration is all an upside are pure, old-fashioned self-interest. The truth, is, big business benefits inordinately from high immigration and artificial growth because they are largely the people financing and building the new infrastructure these new citizens require.

A country can have a number of valid reasons for high-immigration; an ageing, dwindling population; chronic skills and staffing shortages in key parts of the economy; the “populate-or-perish” fear that saw Australia boost its immigration numbers after World War II; or simply for humanitarian reasons — to spread our good fortune around and offer a new home to the world’s disposed.

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One of the unpredicted consequences of the pandemic has been that the state governments that have locked-down hardest and closed their borders first, have seen their popularity rise.

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Surprise renaissance of reading as a pastime during the COVID-19 pandemic has delighted even the most sceptical of bibliophiles.

Books offer a mental stimulation involving both the hand and mind that few other cerebral activities achieve, Orange Branch Librarian, Sean Brady explained.

Launch of a new Central West Libraries app also aims to keep the unique experience of the oldfashioned municipal library relevant to the third decade of the new millennium.

The Central West Libraries app is designed to improve library membership as well as keeping members up-to-date with library events, Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said.

“I brought my phone today to prove that I’m into apps, I’m ‘with it’ now and it’s so easy,” Cr Kidd said. “I love e-books and I think this is a fantastic idea and an extension of our library,” he said.

“There’s no need to carry your library card, you can access all your membership details on your phone or tablet,” Cr Kidd said.

“You can search the catalogue and reserve books or renew your loan. You can even store all your family members’ details so you can see what each of you has out on loan at the same time.”

Other functions of the new app include viewing available e-books, streaming films and online services, purchase requests, and Facebook and

Instagram connectivity. “Any book you see, you can also now reserve it if it is any of our libraries,” Sean explained.

the library, but they got used to the library not being there. They’ve been starting to come-back from this year though,” he said.

“Your library membership is a gateway to so many other resources. What you see when you walk into a Central West Libraries branch, is just the tip of the iceberg,” Orange City Council Services Policy Committee Chair, Scott Munro added.

He said predictions that e-books and social media would lead to the death of the humble ink, paper, and cardboard book, proved premature for a very good reason.

“Central West Libraries subscribes to these other services and library members can access them free with their library membership. They are so easy to use. Once you log in you can be reading or listening within seconds.”

These services include: BorrowBox offering a wide range of e-books and e-audio for adults and kids in an intuitive, user-friendly app; Indyreads with 9000 titles of mainly-independently published Australian fiction and non-fiction; and Libby that allows members to borrow from a large selection of e-magazines, e-books and e-audio.

Sean said that readers took some time to get back into the habit of library visits after last year’s lockdowns, but that regulars have now started returning in numbers.

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“I remember when you weren’t allowed to make a noise and had to keep quiet,” Cr Kidd recalled.

“But now we’ve got one of the best libraries in Australia,” he said.

Reader Bev Quince said that the new app has fuelled her enthusiasm for this centuries’ old institution: “I don’t really use the Library that often, but I will now,” she said.

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Back on Stage: Orange Christian School’s Annie the Musical — SAMUEL RODWELL —

“Annie is such a big role model” Orange Christian School is back with another classic musical!

After the forced hiatus of the pandemic put theatre on hold, they are now proudly presenting the stage production adaption of the renowned Harold Gray comic strip Annie. Set during the 1930s Depression, the story follows young orphan Annie and her journey to adoption by millionaire Oliver Warbucks.

Director Helen Giger, explains, “We have been working on Annie since the beginning of this year. Thankfully, we have been very fortunate with the current COVID restrictions, being able to put on this production.”

“The cast are from Years 7 to 12, they’ve been working, really working – lots of dedication. They are managing to fit everything in, learning the wonderful dances, songs, and performances brilliantly. It will be a worth-while, fun show by a talented group of students.”

Perhaps the most unique aspect of this performance for Orange Christian School is the lead role of Annie being split between two cast members, Pip Parkinson and Jaimee Tandang.

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Giger expresses, “I think it will be very interesting to see the two different versions to the character of Annie.”

Pip is looking forward to the role, “I think it’s really cool having two people play Annie, because both Jaimee and I have different takes on the character. We both bring different qualities to the table and getting to see those different methods in how we both connect to Annie is really satisfying.”

Jaimee has been thrilled from the outset. “I feel really pumped about getting the part of Annie, I wasn’t expecting to get the role. I am truly excited to be playing a character who is this child, that has been through some hard times but still goes through her days with a smile.”

Pip agrees, “Annie always has this positive and really optimistic attitude. It’s great for any little kids who might be watching the show, they can look up to the character because Annie is such a big role model.”

Musical producer, Melissa Collins, talks about recently joining the staff at Orange Christian School, “It’s been an adventure.

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This is my first year here at the school and it has been great working with the staff and students who have put in a lot of rehearsal time and they’re keen to get on stage.”

“We have a bunch of students behind the scenes who have helped working on the sets. Our Stage 5 Art class has contributed to the painting and our orchestra also involves many students and parents. It’s a whole-team effort in all aspects. I’m loving the last two weeks, seeing it all come together. I’m so excited to see it come to life on stage.”

“I would like to say ‘thank-you’ to the massive team who have put this whole musical together. To the parents and students who have put so many hours into this,” Collins says.

Annie will be presented to local audiences for the entire family to enjoy at the Orange Civic Theatre on Friday, June 11 at 7pm and Saturday, June 12 at 5pm.

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support local businesses Want to support local businesses? Don’t forget your free “Dine and Discover” vouchers that run-out at the end of June.

Colour City winers and diners, however, are lagging-behind their city counterparts in utilising the promotion with only Cabonne residents keeping our end-up.

While about 80 local businesses have signed-up for the State Government initiative, some say the roll-out has been poorly-targetted with much of the money going to giant fast-food franchises such as McDonalds and KFC. Hard-hit local entertainment businesses like the Odeon 5 Cinema though have had a mini-boom in business from the vouchers.

increasing patronage with many delayed blockbusters including Fast and Furious, Black Widow, and A Quiet Place II, now starting to screen.

“There’s no seating restrictions now, people are still signing-in with their QR Code but that’s it.

We’re now at about 75 per cent of our former screenings, it’s picking-up a bit.”

“I think people are sick of sitting at home, with live bands, theatre, restaurants, all now doing well… the recovery is happening,” Helen said.

“We can only take the ‘Discover’ portion,” Cinema Manager Helen McBurnie explained.

Rod Soo from the Cheeky Barista though is disappointed though that a scheme promoted to support small business, has been extended to franchises of giant fast-food chains in the district.

“But we’re getting a lot of them coming through…. Probably thousands. I absolutely support them; it’s certainly helped our cinema.”

“I’m annoyed that a big percentage has been used at clubs and at McDonalds, KFC, I heard that it was about 65 per cent,” he said.

To encourage locals to return to the escapist, old-fashioned fun of a trip to “the pictures”, Odeon 5 is offering unique deals around the Discover vouchers.

“But we were told when we signed-up, that it was to be targeted at smaller businesses,” he added.

“People with the vouchers can get two tickets for the $25 or a ticket and large drink and popcorn, or just use as general payment if they wish,” Helen explained.

“It’s been good for us, a lot of people are coming in who wouldn’t normally, and this could push them into coming back again.”

Helen urges locals who haven’t yet applied for the vouchers (see details attached) to “get in and use them, there’s plenty of places locally you can also use the ‘Dine’ portion,” she said.

She said that her cinema is seeing gradually-

He said that the timing of its release had also been botched. “We were told it would be ideal for the wine trails, the movies, and on the first of March it would come-out, but it came-out three– four days before the school holidays, so instead of using it here, many people took it with them,” he said.

Rod added that the initial run of people utilising the vouchers, had dropped-off in recent weeks.

“For the first five weeks it wasn’t too bad but now we’re only getting one or two a week. I just think it’s been poorly-advertised, poorly-coordinated and poorly-targeted,” he said.

“For me, I love it, but it could have been a lot, lot better,” he said.

Caroline Peake from Hog’s Breath Café in Lords Place strongly supports the vouchers and says that she would like to ideally see the promotion extended past its June cut-off date.

“It would be great if it was continued, but I suppose these things can’t go forever,” she said.

“If you think about it, it’s generating income for businesses and providing stimulation for families to spend money.

“People are mentioning them when they call to book and using them when they’re coming in… we’ve probably had hundreds of the vouchers used here.”

Caroline sees no problem with large franchises being allowed to utilise the promotion because, in the end, they are all part of the local business community.

“I guess so, all these businesses are owned by individual people and employ local workers,” she said.

Statistics from the NSW Government show that Orange and Blayney locals are lagging behind the State average in using the Dine and Discover initiative with only Cabonne ratepayers keeping-up with Sydney figures.

While the average Sydney customer spend at businesses in the Sydney local government area is nearly $45, at Orange it is only $35, and at Blayney, only $25. Cabonne local government area though has a spend of more than $44 per business, almost matching the Sydney figures.

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— SAMUEL RODWELL — Cancer Care Western NSW was recently delighted to present Orange Credit Union with a certificate of appreciation for the group's continued support of the Western Care Lodge.

Through their Community Support Grants Program, funds from the credit union over the years have totaled $16,000 for much-needed furnishings for cancer patients to enjoy the modern comforts when staying at the Lodge while in care.

After the opening of the Lodge in November 2011, the 22-bedroom facility with a central kitchen, community area, and library, has been able to provide comprehensive specialist cancer services for patients. Accommodating guests that have traveled as far as Broken Hill, Cobar,

and many other communities from across regional and remote NSW. Regional Fundraising Co-Ordinator Jan Savage from Cancer Care Western NSW spoke about the importance of this support unit that has spanned nearly a decade from Orange Credit Union.

“We have a 280,000 medical service catchment area while we’ve had over 4000 guests stay here in the Lodge. It’s important to us to generate ongoing funding to maintain the work we do and replace, as necessary, any furnishings that need replacing. It’s just an ongoing issue.”

“It fuels me and fuels our organisation to work-together to create the best outcomes we

can for the medical service catchment area patients who come here to stay. It’s so difficult when someone comes in – they’re away from their home and family. That’s what we’re really passionate about; is wanting to offer people the best care and support for the health service while looking after cancer patients,” Jan explained.

seeing how organisations, such as Western Care Lodge, are able to continue offering their services for the community and beyond is just fantastic.”

In acceptance of the certificate of appreciation, Orange Credit Union CEO Andrew de Graaff said, “The aspect I’m really excited about, is knowing that we were instrumental in helping establish this wonderful facility so many years ago. It is such a proud moment for the Orange Credit Union. We’ve been doing this for 15 years through our community grants program and

“It just comes from the heart and that’s the same for our team. It can be so isolating for patients, so to come into a place where there’s community and support, it’s just lovely and you feel it when you are here. You got a beautiful setting where it’s brand new and everybody is taking care to keep it that way. It’s really important and personal for me,” Jan concluded.

For Jan, the work is incredibly personal after having experienced through family members what many patients go through while seeking care away from home.

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A true sense of what it is to give back to the community, Inner Wheel Orange President Jan Lockie and former President Rhonda Sawtell were delighted to present the donations to Rochelle Monaghan from Housing Plus.

That will be provided to the women and children refuge accommodation in Orange, The Orchard. “This was my project for my year as President [donating toiletries]. Last year when Rhonda was President, she donated toys for the children’s playroom,” Jan says.

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Inner Wheel Orange President Jan Lockie, Rochelle Monaghan from Housing Plus, and former President Rhonda Sawtell donating toiletries to Orange women’s refuge, The Orchard (Photo Supplied).

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Men without a “Shed” look to Lucknow return Frustrating holdups to refurbishment of the former Lucknow School of Arts has delayed return of Orange Men’s Shed to its spiritual home.

Orange Men’s Shedder, Donald Kingham at the group’s temporary Bloomfield base.

“We’ve dropped about a third of our refurbishment is still continuing. “There’s been a lot of hold-ups and delays that we members, we had about 75 and now we’re didn’t expect. We don’t estimate when we’re down to about 50.” likely to re-open, we take it as it comes,” he Alan believes also that social changes said philosophically. since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 related delays to supplies has has had an impact on groups like the seen the work carried out in a stop-start They are still operating at a former ward Men’s Shed. fashion by contractors employed by of Bloomfield Hospital in south Orange “Things have changed, the pandemic has whose availability probably saved the local Orange Council. had a bit of an effect. People have found group from closing.

“The funding’s through, but we keep a lot of other things to do. All of the young finding problems here, there and “We were very fortunate to get it out at ones, and even our older ones, found plenty everywhere — because of that, we’re still out Bloomfield, otherwise we would all have of stuff on the internet other than goingbeen struggling,” Men’s Shed President, Alan at Riverside (Bloomfield) but they say we out,” he said. can stay there as long as we want,” Alan Campbell said.

He said that the arson attack, the forced said.

Nearly two-years after the arson attack on move, and the 15-month pandemic has, The historic building at Bloomfield, sited the historic School of Arts building though, however, been revealing: “It has certainly on the northern edge of the old campus, shown the resilience in the group. Like has become a convenient home-away-from anything, you face adversity, and come out home for the group that seemed otherwise the other-side a better person.” destined to shutter.

The local Men’s Shed — part of a unique Australia-wide initiative involving woodworking and carpentry to help the wellbeing and mental health of older males — had to move following a 2019 fire that almost destroyed their village hall.

The working-with-wood projects the “The fire was deliberately lit… but we’re so group offers are not all a hard-slog, lucky we got this place, it was originally a socialising, morning teas, and support are ward, then a laundry, then it was shut-down just as important.

“It’s for woodwork and for years,” he explained. for any blokes who want to come out and The local group, running now for more chat,” Alan concluded. than a decade, has however been able The Orange group meets Mondayto continue their valuable work with older Wednesdays from 9.30–3pm and new men in the community but the lack of a members are invited to turn-up at any time. permanent home has seen the loss of members.

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Andrew GEE MP

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FEDERAL MEMBER FOR CALARE RUNS ON THE BOARD FOR ORANGE √ $2 billion for Great Western Highway upgrade √ $29.8 million for the Dixons Long Point Crossing development √ $22 million for the CSU medical school √ $3.454 million for a new four-lane bridge and road upgrades over the Orange to Dubbo railway line √ $19 million for the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health √ $2 million for the Forest Road Bridge duplication √ $18 million for a world-class health research facility √ $650,000 for a new hall at Orange Christian School √ $14.7 million for Mission Australia’s Benjamin Short Grove Aged Care facility √ $100,000 for new stadium seating at Wade Park

MOLONG AND BLAYNEY BANK CLOSURE UPDATE The Mayor of Cabonne, Kevin Beatty, the Mayor of Blayney I have indicated to the bank that this is not good enough for Shire, Scott Ferguson and I are still working through issues with our communities. I know that representatives from the bank the Commonwealth Bank. are set to visit Molong and Blayney in the coming days, and I would urge them to listen to community sentiment and keep Since the mayors and I had our conference with CEO, Matt these branches open.

Comyn, and senior executives of the Commonwealth Bank, the bank has come up with the suggestion of placing information It is quite clear that both the Molong and Blayney districts are officers in Blayney and Molong for a couple of days a week for still profit centers for the bank, and that these branches are a few months, as a transitional measure after the closure of the being closed merely to boost profits for the bank’s shareholders. branches currently scheduled for 4 June 2021.

This is a stark example of Australia’s banks putting super profits Whilst the bank believes this to be a workable solution, it is ahead of their long-standing and loyal country customers, who not an acceptable outcome for the communities of Molong rely on the banks to provide the services they need to manage and Blayney. The information officers would not be providing their businesses and livelihoods. banking services, but would merely be providing customers These bank closures are a huge issue in regional Australia and with banking information at an as yet undisclosed location. we need to fight them, so that our country communities are not The fact that the bank believes this to be a positive outcome, left behind, while the big four banks line their ever-increasing highlights the huge gap between the CBA headquarters and back pockets. community feeling on the ground in our region.

I will keep the community posted on developments.

NEW EDUCATION AND TRAINING CENTRE - A HUGE ASSET Last week I helped officially open the new Education and Training Centre at the Australian National Field Days (ANFD), at Borenore.

The Australian Government was very pleased to contribute $308,175 towards the project through it’s Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF).

The new Education and Training Centre will enhance the viability of the Field Days, strengthening the site as a community agricultural hub during the Field Days, but also throughout the year. This is a fantastic outcome for Australia’s oldest running

field days and it’s great to see the completion of projects like this after the very challenging time our communities have had with both the drought and COVID. The wealth and strength of Australia has always been based on what we make and what we grow and what we sell. Agriculture will always be a crucial part of our future, and this new Centre is an important local part of that.

Well done to all involved, the ANFD team, the volunteers and local community members who have given so much to this agricultural institution over the years!

√ $3 million for a second radiotherapy unit at Orange Health Service √ $15,000 for a new hydrotherapy spa at Anson Street School √ $1.42 million for an upgrade of Clergate Road √ $8,000,000 for an investigation of fast rail from Syd Parkes √ $2,000,000 for Stage 4 of Southern Feeder Road project √ $1,243,593 for new contemporary and flexible learning spaces at St Mary’s Catholic School √ $1,200,000 for CCTV in Orange, Bathurst and Wellington √ $1,118,979 for The Orchard crisis accommodation centre $2,000,000 for local projects under the Drought Communities Program

Andrew cutting the ribbon with Adam Dwyer, Sam Connell and Jayne West.

Andrew with Kurt Norton, Harry Peacock, Tye Harrison and Ben Hagney.

Andrew with Ben Hagley, Jayne West, Adam Dwyer and Bree McMinn.

NOW OPEN - RURAL AND REGIONAL ENTERPRISE SCHOLARSHIPS I’m really pleased to annouce that applications for Round 5 of the Rural and Regional Scholarships program are now open.

This program offers support for students from regional or remote areas who wish to undertake further study, in any discipline.

Eligible courses can be anything from a Certificate IV to a PhD and scholarship recipients can choose any mode of study including faceto-face or online by distance.

Students who are eligible may receive up to $18,000 each for a full-time, four-year qualification.

Shorter, part-time qualifications are paid on a pro-rata basis and an extra $500 is available for internships!

Applications for Rural and Regional Scholarships close 20th November 2021. For more information, and to apply, please visit www.dese.gov.au/rres or call my office on 02 6361 7138.

It was fantastic to see Catherine McCauley Catholic Primary School students at Parliament House in Canberra recently. Year 6 were great ambassadors for our region - their parents and school should be very proud of them.

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Solar panels on Council buildings set to save thousands of dollars in energy costs NEW RESIDENTS: Newcomers enjoying a previous lunch

There is such a thing as a free lunch IF YOU’RE NEW TO ORANGE, ORANGE CITY COUNCIL WANTS TO SHOUT YOU LUNCH. Council is hosting a free lunch for anyone who has moved to the Orange region in the last year and a half.

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said moving to a new city can be daunting but a free lunch for new residents on Sunday May 30, will help make the transition a little easier.

“The welcome lunch is an easy point of contact for people who have moved here and want to meet people in similar situations, or want to get a bit more local knowledge from Council staff,’ Cr Kidd said.

“The New Resident Welcome is a casual lunch where the kids can run around in the gardens.

“The adults can then spend time getting to know each other and getting to know what their new community in Orange has to offer.

“New residents might want the hot tip on where the best cycle tracks are, the best bushwalking courses or perhaps find somewhere to volunteer their time and skills.

“Council staff, councillors and a few local politicians will be there to help answer as many questions as we can.

“It’s usually a very well attended event and anyone who has moved here in the last year or so is welcome to come along.”

The lunch is on at the Orange Botanic Gardens, at Yellowbox Way from 11am to 1pm, May 30. Bookings are essential, RSVP via trybooking.com

CONTRACTORS HAVE BEGUN INSTALLING SOLAR PANELS ON THREE COUNCIL BUILDINGS THIS WEEK IN A MOVE THAT WILL REDUCE COUNCIL’S ENERGY USE AND SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS A YEAR. Solar panels will be installed on the Orange Civic Centre and Orange City Pound, while the existing system at the Orange Aquatic Centre will be doubled in size.

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said Orange City Council pledged to ensure best-practice use of renewable energy options for Council and community projects in its Community Strategic Plan 2018-2028.

“Through consultation, we found the community felt strongly about being more sustainable by promoting renewable energy, reducing waste and protecting our natural resources,” Cr Kidd said.

“Installing solar panels on Council assets was one of the strategies chosen to achieve this goal and funding of $500,000 towards renewable projects was allocated in the budget every year for three years, starting in the current financial year.”

The Orange City Pound will receive a 15.9kW system at a cost of $20,500. It is estimated to provide 55.4 per cent of the pound’s annual electricity requirements and save about $3900 in the first year.

The Civic Centre will receive a 99kW system at a cost of $89,500, which is expected to contribute 9.4 per cent of the centre’s annual electricity requirements and is estimated to save $29,000 in the first year.

The Orange Aquatic Centre will receive a further 99kW system at a cost of $143,800, which will contribute an estimated 15.2 per cent of the annual electricity requirements and save about $23,000 in the first year.

Centre under the NSW Government’s Energy Savings Scheme, but have already been claimed for the Aquatic Centre. The certificates can then be sold back to parties such as electricity retailers to meet their obligations towards legislated energy savings targets.

Orange City Council Environmental Sustainability Policy Committee chair Stephen Nugent welcomed the $253,800 investment in renewable energy this financial year.

“The remainder of the budgeted $500,000 will be rolled over to the next financial year, when more council buildings will be fitted with solar panels,” Cr Nugent said.

“This is a step in the right direction in reducing council’s operational costs. The solar panels installed at the Orange Airport at the end of last year have already resulted in a 78 per cent reduction in energy costs for that building.

“In fact, Orange Airport is now 100 per cent renewable during the day.”

Cr Kidd says Orange City Council has made using renewable energy a priority for many years.

“Long-term residents would remember our first visitors’ centre had solar panels on the roof 20 years ago,” he said.

The reason the Civic Centre’s system costs less but saves more money than the Aquatic Centre’s system is because energy savings certificates can be claimed for the Civic

— The next Orange City Council meeting will be held on Tuesday June 1, 2021.

FAQs: Q: Can I still get my hands on a bulky waste voucher?

A: Yes. The free waste vouchers offered to residents at the start of the year will expire on June 30. Make sure you collect your voucher from customer service in Byng Street and use it by the end of June. Each Orange residence is allowed one voucher. Residents collecting a voucher must provide a proof of address from a residence in the Orange Local Government Area.

The voucher allows a person from each residence to dispose of one ute load of household items, or 6 x 4 trailer load for free, any day before June 30, 2021. Any hazardous waste such as asbestos is not included in this voucher system and will be charged at a normal rate.

“The pool has been benefiting from panels we put in four years ago and it’s great they’re going to be doubled.”

The solar panels are expected to be installed and commissioned by the end of June.

Wood-bank deliveries begin as winter weather creeps in ORANGE CITY COUNCIL’S “WOOD-BANK” INITIATIVE HAS RETURNED IN TIME FOR WINTER.

Orange deputy mayor Glenn Taylor said the initiative had been popular in previous years and he was pleased to see it continue in 2021.

Orange residents who are pension or concession card holders are eligible to have half a cubic metre of wood delivered to their home for free, in a bid to ease the cost of keeping warm this coming season.

“It’s clear that there are families in Orange doing it tough especially after the events of 2020, and at this time of year a load of firewood could make all the difference,” Cr Glenn Taylor said.

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said eligible residents could apply for the free delivery of firewood through FoodCare Orange at 142 March Street.

“I have spoken to people who have directly benefited from this initiative and it has made a genuine difference to their wellbeing.

“Families in need in Orange are going to FoodCare, and there they’ll get the groceries they’ll need to help them through a tough patch. Now they’ll also be able to get a delivery of firewood,” Cr Kidd said.

“This s exactly the kind of program Council should be putting in place to help those in need.

“Deliveries of the first few loads of wood have already begun across the city.”

Residents will need to show their pension or concession card to FoodCare staff to apply for the load.

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“The quality of the firewood is an important factor in this program. We’ve looked into it and the best way forward was to bring commercial wood suppliers on board. When a family asks for firewood at the FoodCare Orange office, staff will take their details and arrange for a load of wood to be delivered.”

Orange City Council put the wood-bank proposal

out to tender and reached an agreement with one local commercial supplier to make deliveries.

The program aims to deliver about 100 loads of firewood, at a cost of about $100 per load, a total of about $10,000.

FoodCare is open Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 10.30am – 1pm and Thursday afternoon 4.30pm – 6pm.

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TIMELY VALUE-FOR-MONEY CALL BY COUNCIL CANDIDATE SICK OF THE HAPHAZARD AND AD HOC DECISION-MAKING BY ORANGE COUNCIL? TIME TO BRING IN AN EXPERT, JOSH GIRLEBENNETT BELIEVES.

“But others seem unprepared, they seem to be making these incredibly-important decisions on a whim.”

Josh believes that his “skill-set in procurement and efficiency,” would be an ideal mix for the analytical role required on Orange Council.

Mock Councillor, Josh Girle-Bennett to run for Orange Council… says it is time to bring in an expert to improve our decision-making.

A Mock Councillor with Orange City Life’s “Council Game”, he says it is vital that our largest local service provider gets serious about delivering for the community.

The supply chain and analytics buyer and co-packer for Nestle’s pet food production plant at Blayney, says the Mock Council initiative has offered the perfect opportunity to see how local government in the Colour City should be run. Ï thought it was a great opportunity and chance to air my views to the ratepayers of Orange,” Josh explained.

Like many of the mock councillors, he has enjoyed the experience so much, that he has now determined to put his hand-up for the local government elections in early September.

These are skills that he believes will translate well to the management of Council’s $150 million annual budget.

“If I’m elected to Council in September, there will be challenges in which my professional experience will offer me insights that will inform my decision-making,” he said.

“The two other main issues forming the basis of my campaign is value for money and rate increases. Rates are going up $30 for residents and $90 for businesses.

“But we’re seeing an increase in rates and a decrease in services. We really need someone to look-over these budget papers,” he added.

His ambitions for Orange however extend to far more than just an efficiently-run Council and to effective service delivery.

“These are not the sole reasons I’m running; I have a number of other ideas around water security, liveability, and internet security,” he added.

Having moved here only a couple of years ago, recently married, and in the process of seeking approval to build in north Orange, he is part of the new professional class that is making the Colour City their home.

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“Yes, I have decided to run, but I haven’t yet decided on my (candidate team) ticket,” he explained.

His work with the giant Swiss conglomerate involves ensuring that the Blayney Shire factory is provided with the exact mix of materials to run at full-capacity at all times — a difficult task during the recent ship mishap in the Suez Canal that saw many Nestle containers stranded in the Mediterranean Sea. “It entails working with suppliers from around the world to ensure that the materials arrive at the right time in the correct quantities,” he explained.

“I’m running to improve their efficiency and how to better allocate their resources, ensuring that ratepayers in Orange get the best value for their money.”

Watching the current Council operating at close quarters, he says that many (but not all) of the councillors are “very solid people”.

“There are some councillors performing their role and representing the community interest, reading their papers, and making all decisions with due diligence.

“We need greater diversity on Council, but it should still be the best candidates, we don’t need diversity for diversity’s sake.”

Lastly, he wants to change the narrative around Council’s failings in the larger community.

“Another reason that prompted me to run, is that 80–90 per cent of the people I talk to who live in Orange city boundaries are very dissatisfied with Council’s performance; I want to change that perception,” Josh concluded.

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OLD BOYS RUGBY SPRINGHILL REC. I had a great day playing some rugby with this group of legends, all for a great charity and cause - “Give me 5 for Kids” The Orange Emulators, Bathurst Bulldogs Old Boys and the Springhill Wood Ducks came together, along with the Springhill Community and raised several thousand dollars for this important charity.

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There were no serious injuries to report, but there was plenty of fun and laughs. A few quiet beverages at the Railway Hotel Spring Hill rounded off a great afternoon.

I was privileged to present both Mrs Robyn Livermore and Ms Beverley Rankin their respective awards for Hidden Treasures and 2021 Orange Local Woman of the Year. Well done ladies and congratulations on your deserved acknowledgement and awards.

ORANGE FIRE and RESCUE DAY @ BUNNINGS It was a great turn out at Bunnings in Orange for the annual NSW FIRE + RESCUE OPEN DAY. A big shout out to our firies for what they do for us all.

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Did you know that many public school teachers in the Bathurst District benefit from a regular cold climate allowance, while teachers in the Orange district do not?

Nobody begrudges the hardworking teachers in Bathurst, however the Bureau of Meteorology statistics shows Orange’s climate is measurably colder than Bathurst. This small financial incentive could be beneficial in attracting and retaining quality educators in our local schools.

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There are many country kids who are stranded in remote areas of the state because they don’t have access to a bus or train, and they don’t have a TAFE, Uni or even a job opportunity close by.

BANKSIA PROJECT I’m heading along to this event and the invitation is extended to all men across the Central West.

I’ve asked the Minister for Education to consider those country kids who are less fortunate than others, by funding driver instruction of country kids through local schools and community groups, or larger contractual arrangements with professional instructors.

This is a great initiative, focusing on men’s mental health and how to build resilience during tough times.

Many people aren’t aware of what services are available outside the traditional clinical services, so this is a great opportunity to see what else is out there and providing tips on how to support men when they are struggling.

Education is more than maths and english, we need to look and the bigger picture for our country kids who don’t have on tap what kids in the city do.

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“It’s clear that there are families in Orange doing it tough especially after the events of 2020, and at this time of year a load of firewood could make all the difference. I have spoken to people who have directly benefited from this initiative and it has made a genuine difference to their well-being,” Orange Deputy Mayor Glenn Taylor said.

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What happened at Council on 18th May 2021?

Council backed a proposal to investigate how a youth art trail could be developed across Orange and will consult various youth and cultural groups across the city.

An application to host a light show event at the Orange Showground in June was approved. The ‘Orange Gets its Glow On’ event is anticipated to attract up to 800 people.

Council also backed plans to consider allocating $20,000 toward up to 20 Future Tunes and Future Flix events indoors at various licensed premises, cafes and restaurants across the Orange CBD during the winter months. The plan will go out on public exhibition for 28 days.

The Quarterly Budget Review for the 3rd Quarter of the current financial year was discussed as was the Statement of Investments.

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Amanda Spalding Last week’s Council meeting had a very end-ofterm feel about it.

At one stage the Mayor said, ‘that’ll be for the next Council to decide’ which was interesting, as clearly Council are not going to defer the decision on removing the trees from the south Bloomfield site to the next Council. The Mayor had a serious rant about the NSW Heritage Council saying, ‘I have no confidence in heritage planning’, whereas he is usually very supportive of heritage planning, when he agrees with it!

It was good to see that Councillors did spend some time on financial matters and asked questions of the Chief Financial Officer. The Central Coast Council was mentioned in passing where the Councillors were sacked and the Administrator reported that there was serious mismanagement of the Council’s budget and the council had accrued debt of more

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than $565 million and could not pay its 2000 staff.

• Central Coast 15% increase over 3 years

The Local Government Amendment Act 2021 has been passed by the NSW Government. The aim of this legislation is to ‘ensure a fairer and more equitable rating system’. NSW has had rate-pegging in place for over 20 years, and this legislation will help councils to cater for population growth, which has been very difficult under rate pegging. However, this is about ratepayers paying more, not about implementing the requirement in the Local Government Act for each Council to pursue the best possible public value for residents and ratepayers.

• Cootamundra-Gundagai 53.5% cumulative increase over 4 years

I have frequently commented on the fact that Orange City Council’s rates are very high and yet it seems that there is no effort by Council to pursue the best possible public value for residents and ratepayers.

It was recently announced that Special Rate Variation applications had been approved by the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal for many of the councils that were amalgamated in 2016 including: • City of Canterbury-Bankstown 36.34% cumulative increase over 5 years and increase in minimum rates

• Georges River – 32.6% cumulative increase over 5 years and increase in minimum rates.

The NSW Office of Local Government is now known as ‘the shelf of Local Government’ as it has so few staff to hold councils accountable and I see that the Chief Executive, Tim Hurst, has stepped down following concern being publicly expressed over the $252 million Stronger Community Fund - Tied Grants program, which the Opposition has described as being used as a government taxpayer slush fund.

The fund was designed to assist councils that were merged in 2016. However, the Opposition allege that it was instead used to prop up the re-election prospects of the Liberal-National Government, with 95 per cent of the grants awarded to councils in marginal or Coalition-held seats.

If you were to elect me as your Mayor, I would push for a review of the implementation of the Council’s Improvement Proposal that was developed in 2016 and what efforts have been made since to deliver the best possible public value for residents and ratepayers.

THE COUNCIL GAME MOCK COUNCILLOR Steve Peterson During the council meeting on Tuesday, there was mention of the Orange Show, which was great by the way and fantastic to see happening despite uncertain times.

The context of one question was about mobility parking for the show. Parking for large events would often present a challenge for everybody involved, but particularly for those with reduced mobility. There is no obvious solution but to underline the importance of considering this need during the planning. This would avoid the cross-country Maxi-taxi experience that I ended up utilising! I have to say around Orange CBD, I am grateful for the disability parking that does exist. More is helpful, but parking is always in demand for everybody and my experience is, that I can normally find a park that I can use. I would be keen to know more about council’s plans for the additional multi-storey carpark discussed earlier this year.

Speaking of parking, children’s soccer at Jack Brabham oval Saturday morning is highly-congested and the parking space available inadequate. Some very creative parking options are employed by people to help watch their kid’s soccer. There is risk involved with this.

Development of that area is planned and I truly hope that generous parking is included in any plans for further sporting amenities.

Whilst on topic, a sincerely thank-you to those involved in running soccer and the numerous other children sport on cold Orange weekends. The physical benefits of sport for participants and social development skills required through team activities would be hard to understate. So much of the best experiences Orange provides is done on the back of volunteers, and I’m very grateful for this.

MOCK COUNCILLOR Greater Good Among the Council papers for last week’s meeting was a list of four of the CBD property owners who had applied for money to tidy up their main street façades. For the record, it’s still a mystery to me why Council would offer money in this fashion to people who own valuable property and are clearly from the big end of town, when it could be invested in areas of far greater need and achieve far greater gain.

I decided to do a check of the properties mentioned and to be very honest, I can’t see giving the $4000-$5000 they each have applied for will make much difference to the streetscape. One of the businesses would you believe, was the Anson Street Plaza? The whole scheme seems to me to have been a very poorly thought-out way of trying to get main street property owners to smarten their properties up. I wonder who came up with it? In my view, it’s another questionable decision by our Council, but I’ll leave it at that and let ratepayers consider what they make of all that.

Just on a general note, I remember a TV commercial several years ago that used the theme Good, Better, Best to urge people to buy quality tyres. I think if Council approached their decisions with the same attitude, many “good” decisions might become “better” decisions, and if they were really serious, they might come out with more “best” decisions. If we’re always going to be satisfied with what we considered “good” decisions without considering something that may be” better”, we’ll rarely achieve the

“best” outcomes with anything. Many Council decisions are considered good but, in many cases, and with a little more thought, many could be so much better. Let’s not accept good when better or best is on offer.

On another issue from the meeting, it was mentioned that an application from someone to run a ‘glow’ event in Orange was made and, on this, two things struck me as weird. One was the applicants address was deleted from the papers for some reason, I wondered why that would be necessary? The other was a question from Councillor Mileto about whether the applicant was from a “hot spot”.

Really? It just seems strange to me that people will come from everywhere to attend the event, yet a Councillor wonders if the event organiser is from a hot spot. Shows you how silly some things have become with Covid issues.

MOCK COUNCILLOR Frances Kinghorne I read with some interest this week that installation has commenced adding or increasing solar panels on three of our council facilities. This move is expected to save us many thousands of dollars each year in electricity expenses and is an obvious and commendable decision by our councillors. We installed 40 panels on our pharmacy building many years ago and it took around 3 years to completely cover the cost with the resultant savings, and we continue to benefit from energy bills that are around one third of what they used to be.

Renewable energy use is a no brainer. Of course, we should be embracing it. The logistics and politics aren’t always so straightforward but most sensible people would acknowledge that it is ultimately a good idea.

My interest was therefore piqued during Tuesday evening’s council meeting, when our Mayor raised the issue of disposal of old or dead panels. The context was developing a policy about their disposal in our waste facilities, but it seemed to me that the direction was more toward other councils who refuse to accept them, so perhaps a slight suggestion that we should do likewise.

This concerned me for two reasons. Firstly, I strongly suspect that people will just dump them somewhere inappropriate if there isn’t an affordable and convenient option to do it legally. Secondly, it seems a little hypocritical if we are about to install many new ones which will eventually need to be disposed of. It’s a good idea with any policy to consider longer-term ramifications and this is no exception.

I’m hoping I misinterpreted the subtle negative direction and that our Mayor was actually being proactive in advocating that we have a policy on this issue. Time will tell.

What matters to the public are the results of decisions made.

It saddens me that as I’m talking to people about Council, what low regard our Council is held in. I’m finding there is no shortage of people willing to offer their thoughts and feelings on why they are dissatisfied with the Council.

However, I am a believer that Council should be a powerhouse for good.

Home is where the heart is. And unlike decisions made by our political masters in Sydney and Canberra, Council operates at the local level making decisions that impact our lifestyles every day of the week.

Council attracts plenty of criticism, and in many cases those criticisms can be justified. In saying that, I do feel Council and Councillors are on a bit of a hiding to nothing in that they are never going to please everyone.

I can’t promise that if I was elected to Council I would be able to please everyone. In fact, I wouldn’t even want to try.

Call me crazy, but I feel that if Council makes decisions that annoy lots of people only a little, and only a few people a lot, then those decisions are probably about right.

Council has a place that goes far beyond roads, rubbish and rates. We need collaboration, innovation, and initiative going forward.

If we can get the balance right between how Councillors work with Council and how Council communicates with the community, then imagine the great things that can be achieved.

MOCK COUNCILLOR Pot Stirrer At last week’s Council meeting there was another glaring example of why people like me think our current group of Councillors could and should do better.

The topic was Council’s investments and, following a few questions, Council’s Financial Controller told the meeting that the $15 million or so of funds that Council has invested needed to be invested in what they term "A and B" investments, basically these relate to risk. A includes bank term deposits and currently the best rate they could secure was .36 percent interest. For the record, on $15 million, that represents just $54,000 in interest over a year.

Mayor Kidd then threw in a random comment saying he’d personally like to see some of this $15 million used to complete the Conservatorium project. His comment was just that, a comment, and there was no further discussion.

These two things highlighted two problems for me.

I think readers may have had enough of reading Mock Councillors write about what happened at recent Council meetings.

One, why didn’t Councillors take the opportunity to engage in a bit of robust and meaningful conversation about how we may be able to get better returns for our $15 million and two, if the Mayor feels that way, why didn’t he move a motion or put the idea forward more officially? For such an important issue, just throwing in a loose comment like this was a bit too whimsical for me and didn’t show much passion. It seemed to me that the thought had merit and deserved to be considered more formally and fully at the very least.

If you’ve never watched or been to a council meeting, you haven’t been missing much. They are pretty boring… and in many respects, that’s how they should be. Running a city is no small task and the Councillors have many responsibilities that are of little interest to most members of the public.

Here were two cases where our Councillors had the chance to provide meaningful discussion about two big and important issues but didn’t. Surely that says something about the way they think and the scope of their interests. We need and deserve better, something to think about between now and September 4.

MOCK COUNCILLOR Daniel McGregor

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GREAT FAMILY HOME WITH SPACE FOR EVERYTHING! This lovely home in a quiet location could just be the home you are looking for with generous living areas and bedrooms, ducted gas heating throughout and 2 split systems..

There are four bedrooms with the master having a walk in robe and en-suite plus a sunny easterly outlook for morning light and the remining three bedrooms all have built in robes. There is a separate lounge room which would be good to escape the kids and a huge open plan kitchen/dining/family room with a great outlook and also opening onto the outdoor covered alfresco. In addition to the covered alfresco there is also an elevated covered deck with views to Mt Canobolas, you will not need a shed in the backyard of this property as there is a HUGE under house lockable storage area which is over 10 m long and could be extra car storage, workshop, rumpus room or more.

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27 OLYMPIC DRIVE, ORANGE

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A magic garden paradise around 5,125sqm offering a pleasant mix of foliage that embraces a large 4 bedroom home, just drenched in northern sunlight. Since purchasing the current owners have generously renovated the home including kitchen, bathrooms and more. With enduring and lovely decor, a very high end galley style kitchen with SMEG appliances and situated in a large open plan area, this home with its 3.5 bathrooms and 3 generous living areas immediately invites relaxation. Complimenting the home is a double attached garage, a 4 bay shed and workshop area, a bore offering a generous supply of garden water and 18 solar panels. A home with a unique personality that is sure to attract very strong buyer interest. Agents in Conjunction with Professionals Orange

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Truly a lovely family home with unique features that make it stand out from the rest. With four large bedrooms 3 of which having built-in robes and the master bedroom with walk in robe and en-suite. There are two distinct living areas, the first is at the front of the house capturing that beautiful norther sun, the other is at the rear of the house and is an open plan kitchen, living and dining with plenty of room and leading onto a covered alfresco. The main bathroom is extra large with both bath and shower and is central to the bedrooms. There is ducted gas heating throughout, beautiful tiling in the bathrooms and laundry, extra high ceilings, so much storage space, internal access from the double garage, and beautifully landscaped and easy to maintain fully enclosed back garden. You won’t be disappointed.

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IDEAL LOCATION FOR AN ENTERPRISE

COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN BUSY FIVEWAYS PRECINCT

88 WARRENDINE STREET, ORANGE

A commercial premises that packs a punch located on a high traffic corridor within easy walking distance to the CBD that is currently run as the local iconic Bissy’s Cafe.

Prime Summer Street site with busy highway frontage.

The front café dining area features the charm of two fixed double dining booths plus a coffee / food display area and a well equipped kitchen with a six burner gas stove. A separate small function room leads through to a most delightful airy covered outdoor sitting area that’s peaceful and shady for the Summer.

There is a separate studio with two rooms and its own access with further potential.

There is also a security system throughout and split air conditioners.

Room for on-site parking at rear.

You won’t believe how the beautiful outdoor area has been utilized to complement the permaculture practice of the business with fruit trees, raised vegetable beds, chook pens & runs and a rainwater tank fed watering system. An 80 panel 20kW solar system is a sure bonus and ties in with the self-sufficient theme.

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There is also a lovely outlook from front to enjoy as well.

This 800 m2 block is registered and ready to build on now so contact us today, grab your builder and plan for that dream home that you deserve.

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• Grand stairwell with easy grade • Long term Lease available

RENT: $30,000 PER ANNUM + GST

• 6 rooms plus own kitchen and common amenities

Approx. 300 m2 of floor space in this well presented commercial shop in Summer Street.

Currently set up as an office complex this premises would also be ideal as a retail shop.

Has good staff amenities and reverse cycle air conditioning though out.

• Don’t miss out on securing this spacious shop of around 120 m2 in floor area that is positioned in the busy core of Orange’s CBD in Summer Street.

• On-site parking • Available now.

RENT: $90,000 P.A. + GST & OUTGOINGS

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101 LONE PINE AVENUE, ORANGE Not a cent to spend. Move into this renovated home today and enjoy your new home.

Featuring new carpet, new kitchen with electric cooking and an open plan lounge/dining area. All three bedrooms are a good size to accommodate the family. The rear yard is a big space and fully enclosed with side access from the front of the home.

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7 NAPIER STREET, BLAYNEY

6578 MID WESTERN HIGHWAY, LYNDHURST

This family home is located at Blayney with three good size bedrooms, 2 with built ins, and an additional study. Great family size room with gas heating and reverse cycle inverter. Modern kitchen with electric cooking, large bathroom with spa bath and separate shower. New floor coverings in the living and kitchen areas with update to the laundry. Outside there are two garden sheds and a very large enclosed backyard with side access. Excellent tenant in place if you are looking for an investment property.

This block has an abundance of beautiful established trees that bring amazing wildlife to your door. You can build your dream home on 13 acres and have views to enjoy the most amazing sunsets all year round. Drive to Cowra, Blayney or Orange for a casual drive, do your shopping and grab a coffee for the drive home. This block is very rare so don’t miss this opportunity to jump on this one.

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‘TOTTENS’ MITCHELL HIGHWAY, LUCKNOW

From the home in a very quiet cul-de-sac, through the four main bedrooms, two living areas and through to the back garden leading to the outdoor kitchen, garage/workshop and hobby room this home has had a lifetime of love put into it and now its time for a new owner to get that love back! This home will fit a big family and with a separate space for teenagers and young adults everyone has their own space. Alternatively, as an investment property this home will show a tidy return. Genuine buyers are encouraged to enquire as we have, motivated vendors.

For Sale $575,000

Just over 350 acres of hill grazing; absolutely top shelf grazing country with 11 dams, bore, plus Summer Hill Creek frontage. Up to 50 acres of well drained sloping cultivation currently all sown to permanent pastures of phalaris, clovers, fescue and cocksfoot. 10 minutes east of Orange via the Mitchell Highway and with its’ own private bitumen road access. Minimal infrastructure includes a 3 bedroom fibro cottage, plus a 2nd dwelling entitlement available (STCA). One large earthen floor hayshed enclosed on three sides plus a smaller shed at the house.

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• Recently updated, paint, carpet, hot water system.

• 3 separate living areas including rumpus room, Ducted reverse cycle A/C.

• Multiple living areas, flexible floor plan.

• Contemporary, stylish kitchen with 900mm oven and breakfast bench.

• Central location, 3 blocks from CBD.

• Covered alfresco area with northern aspect and views of Mt Canobolas.

• Great investment or first home.

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• Price includes water and electricity.

• Suitable for FIFO.

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With over 20 years of experience in marketing and sales, including a position as NSW Advertising Manager for Australian Country Style magazine, Lisa is a first rate negotiator with a reputation for achieving results above expectation.

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TIMEWARP

Pensioners tend their garden

Many Orange pensioners used to spend their leisure time at their amenities centre in Peisley Street in the 1950s.

This photo was taken on a fine day in October 1957 when a group of men and women picked up shovels, mattocks and wheelbarrows to work in improving their front garden.

Later, a new Senior Citizens and Pensioners’ Centre was built in Kite Street where they enjoyed a number of activities.

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25 Laurel Avenue, Orange Entertainer’s Delight This beautiful property will suit the family or entertainer with its liveability, manicured garden and exceptional entertainer’s area which boasts a covered outdoor area and with a fabulous barbeque and preparation area. The large backyard with its lovely landscaping is pleasing to the eye while the landscaped approach to the house itself provides enviable street appeal. The three bedroom house has been cherished and updated with a lovely kitchen and open plan living. The three way bathroom is functional for families while the gas heating and split system guarantee comfort year round. This is a special place where you can escape the hustle and bustle and just relax in the lovely garden.

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HistoryTALKING “We create our tomorrows by what we dream today” This philosophical thought was displayed in a coffee shop I visited recently, and the idea was pursued further by the Oral History group this month when we discussed the ambitions we had when young and whether our dreams had materialised.

Post-war Australia in the late 1940s and 1950s was a time of resettlement and a desire for a continuation of a calmer, safer life after the turmoil of World War 2.

The men returning from war had to be absorbed into the work-force and most women who had held down jobs, returned to domestic duties.

There was also a different attitude to education emerging.

The horizons of many returned men had broadened and the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme gave many an opportunity to further their education.

Many, who had never considered tertiary education, now were able to attend university and gain degrees in areas which, before the war, would have been quite out of their reach.

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wasn’t considered socially acceptable.”

Rosemary agreed. “When my early ambition of ballet dancing came to nothing, I began nursing in a country hospital in South Australia although nurses did have a reputation of having loose morals.

Matrons became very strict later and standards were very high.”

Before university fees were abolished by the Whitlam government in 1974, higher education was generally restricted to people who could afford it.

As well the attitude to the education of women in those days was quite different.

It was expected that when a woman married and had children she would automatically leave the work-force and stay home.

As one of our group said: “Just to get a job was all you wanted in and just after the Depression.”

It is not surprising that the dreams of girls to go into professions were very likely to come to nothing as it was considered by many parents that higher education for a girl was a waste of time and the money could much better be spent on her brothers who would spend their lives in the work-force.

This didn’t stop us dreaming though and Rosemary thought she would like to become a ballet dancer... which of course didn’t happen.

As a consequence, almost the only occupations girls were encouraged to follow were those where scholarships were offered, like teaching.

Some of our group though did achieve what they had always really wanted.

Nursing was also a popular choice because trainees were given full board and lodging.

“I knew quite early that I wanted to become a nurse,”said Joan. “No one influenced me although my sister who was five years older was not allowed by our parents because at that time nursing

“I had always wanted to be a teacher,” said Elma, “probably because I had so much respect for the teacher I had as a child, and I enjoyed every minute of it.”

Leslye, who grew up in Moree, told us feelingly, “My only ambition was to get out of the place so I went nursing and lasted six weeks before coming back home. I had a series of jobs—legal secretary, police force and finally became an enrolled nurse.”

Obviously it was different for the men in our group but as John pointed-out we were taught the work ethic and if we trained for a certain job, we were expected to remain in it for the rest of our lives.

“I had no idea of what I wanted to do but when I was about 14 I developed an interest in wild-life and realised that the responsibility of the land rested on the landholders so I went to Agriculture College and later worked for the Department of Primary Industries which I thoroughly enjoyed .

Tim’s future was more or less assured by his childhood growing up on a property and the only thing he ever wanted to do was to be on the land.

“I joined a Stock Agent and worked in the back country managing properties.

You only went to town every three months and had to become proficient in all sorts of things because you were so far from help.

"When we did go to town, we would get in touch with the local hospital matron and enquire if any of the nurses would like to go out. It was all above board and very respectable but was a great source of company for lonely young men.”

Reg was also a bushman who grew up in the war years and worked with horses.

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“My ambition was to be a vet but there was no possibility of that.

Still I learned a lot on the job doing the work I wanted to do.”

“My father had a garage and I was in a workshop surrounded by motors from a very early age so I really wanted only to work with anything that had a motor,” Dick told us.

“In our day you did what was available and you did it for the rest of your life.

I was also interested in flying and became an instructor .”

Stuart, like all of us, went into a career that was available at the time and his was in the Public Service with the Dept of Public Works and “I ended up in Industrial Relations.

I have no regrets as you did what was offered at the time and stuck with it.”

Pat’s early dream was to be a hairdresser but settled for retailing as did Bronwyn, while Monica who had Italian and French parents was very interested in food preparation.

Always in our discussions is the realisation that although we compare the way we used to live with the way the world is today, we understand that the needs of the community have changed enormously with the advent of the microchip and the advance of technology.

While our choice of career did not always follow our dreams and our lives would seem incredibly boring to the younger generation, in many ways we were fortunate that we didn’t have to make the difficult decisions faced by people today.

We knew the path we had to tread and we don’t seem to have deviated much along the way.

Copyright Helen McAnulty

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On Saturday, May 15, Robyn Roberts celebrated her 60th birthday. She was joined for dinner by 30 family and friends at the Ophir Hotel.

The guests included those that had travelled from Merriwa and Davistown (on the Central Coast) for the occasion.

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WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND THE REGION May 27 The Appleton Ladies Potato Race

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm at Orange Civic Theatre Inspired by real life events and featuring a cast of five fabulous women, THE APPLETON LADIES’ POTATO RACE is a funny, honest, and heart-warming story about upsetting the potato cart and standing up for your principles.

Appleton is a small country town being forced into the present with a recent influx of wealthy city slickers, tree changers and refugees.

Simmering tensions come to a head when new GP Penny Anderson discovers that the famous Appleton Potato Race awards $1000 prize money to men, and a measly $200 to women. When Penny decides to take steps to restore gender parity and coax Appleton into the 21st century, little could she have anticipated the spiraling, hilarious culture war that would follow.

Tickets available on TICKETEK.

May 29 Live Music Saturday’s

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm at Stockman’s Ridge Wines. Live Music Saturday’s are on every weekend this Winter! Enjoy local musicians with views of the vineyard hills, delicious food and drinks in the most relaxed country setting in Orange!

Bookings via website: https://stockmansridge. com.au

May 30 Ensemble Offspring | The Surge

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm at the Orange Regional Conservatorium. The Award-Winning Australian Music Collective. Sydney’s musical maverick Ensemble Offspring, unite the most innovative instrumentalists in Australia with a broad collective of collaborators to explore new ideas through living new music. Led by acclaimed percussionist Claire Edwardes, the ensemble comprises a core line-up of some of Australia’s most well-regarded and virtuosic musicians.

Tickets can be found on Eventbrite or call 02 63617974 for information.

June 5 Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Guy Noble

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm at Orange Civic Theatre.

Acclaimed baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes joins popular pianist and conductor Guy Noble for a concert of favourite arias and songs.

This dynamic pair will perform powerful and rapturous songs and delicate classical arias.

After months of being away from concert halls, this is going to be a celebratory concert of music that will make your heart soar and with a sprinkle of their beloved comedic flair.

Tickets available on TICKETEK.

June 19 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow

8:00 pm - 10:30 pm.

Join the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow in 2021 as it rolls across the country to home deliver the Comedy Festival vibe to every crack and crevice of Australia.

With an all killer, no filler line-up of Australian stars and talented newcomers, buckle in for a night of stand-up, sketch, satire, silliness, and song to satisfy all your comedy cravings!

Get ahead while tickets are still available via TICKETEK. SHOW WARNINGS: Performances often contain coarse language, sexual references and material that can offend. It is recommended for people aged 15 years or older. Smoke Machine/Hazer may be used during this performance.

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Karen Winner:

Orange Art Society’s Feature Artist for May 2021 Growing-up in Orange and studying Graphic Design after finishing school. Karen went on to marry and have seven children, although such a busy family life left her little time to pursue her creative talents.

Karen has always loved the arts, and always wanted to learn and hone her crafting through paint. Realising that life can be so short, after her dear mother passed away, along with many years of her own medical issues including brain surgery, she decided it was time to follow her dream.

One of her mum’s dear friends, Sylvia Grant, brought her along to the Tuesday night art group and she immediately loved it. Despite difficulty at times due to excruciating headaches, Karen found it to be an incredibly wonderful stress reliever.

“I love the idea of colour, texture and that there are so many different mediums to get my art on the canvas.” says Karen, “I’m always keen to try new ideas, and am excited at the prospect of exploring all of them!”. Karen’s mediums of choice are oils, watercolour, and pencils.

Karen’s Feature Artist exhibition will run from 9th May until 5th June 2021 and the official opening will be on Sunday 16th May at 2pm at the Orange Art Society Gallery in Sale Street (entry located at the rear of the Woolworth’s carpark near Harris Farm). Everyone is welcome and are encouraged to come along on to see Karen’s exhibition.

If the doors are open and the flag is out, the Gallery is open.

Everyone is welcome to come in and browse, have a chat to members and to purchase any works that catch your attention.

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1 Large hard-shelled palm seed 6 Communion table 9 Water heaters 11 Fundamental 15 Lotteries 19 Muslim religion 20 Burden 22 Possess 24 Bewilder 25 Be victorious 26 In the air 27 A US five-cent piece 28 Pub 29 Automobile 30 Wind blasts 31 Lean 32 Appointment 33 The heavens 34 Assembly 35 Female giant 36 Penetrates 37 Mourning song 38 Wing flap 39 Children (coll) 40 Stimulant 41 Patent medicine 44 Mark of disgrace 47 Stablehands 50 Residue from burnt

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Wild Chicory — by Kim Kelly —

Wild Chicory is the story of a journey from Ireland to Australia in the early 1900’s, along threads of love, family, war and peace. It’s a slice of ordinary life rich in history, folklore and fairy tale, and a portion of the precious bond between a granddaughter, Brigid, and her grandmother, Nell.

Orange City Life is pleased to be able to bring you this entertaining book in serial form of the coming 10 weeks. Our sincere thanks to Author Kim Kelly for giving us this special privilege.

NEWSFLASH I’ve only just touched the tip of my pen to the page of my book, open on my lap, still wondering where I’m going to start my story, when the trumpets of the ABC news bulletin go off as Grandma switches on her transistor radio. It’s two o’clock. I sit up straight on the edge of the sofa, about to go and join her again at the kitchen table, not because I want to listen to the boring news, but because it sounds like she might have come back from wherever she went.

When I hear what’s on the news, though, I stay where I am.

‘The savage IRA sectarian murders of the ten Protestant textile workers in County Armagh a fortnight ago has caused the political leaders of Ulster to gather at the behest of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr Rees,’ the newsreader is going on. ‘The killings, in themselves a retaliation for the murders of six Catholic civilians on the previous day, has prompted a meeting also of the Cabinet of the Irish Republic to discuss the worsening situation. The IRA in Armagh—’ Grandma switches off the news, clicking her tongue and saying something under her breath that I can’t quite hear; sounds like, ‘stupid habit’.

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Any news about The Troubles that go on and on in Ireland makes her click her tongue and say something under her breath, and I know not to ask her what.

She lights another cigarette.

I go back to starting my story.

WAITING FOR HIM TO COME HOME ‘I can’t sit safe out at Fairfield counting bottles of milk,’ Stevie said one evening coming in from work in the summer of 1940, and it was the last thing Nell had expected.

No-one from the Kennedy clan was allowed to join up with the forces this time – Dan, who was now the patriarch with his own plumbing licence and business out at Lidcombe, would not permit it. The boys could join the coast guard or work for munitions or code-breaking telegraphy or digging ditches out at Dubbo, but they were not to leave the country to fight foes for foreigners. Absolutely no exceptions. With every year that passed, their brother Pat, who was

now a solicitor with a firm in Bridge Street in town representing striking wharf workers, ailed worse and worse in his lungs from the burning of the mustard gas. Pat could hardly walk up a flight of stairs without resting halfway, and if he lost his job the government would not pay him one penny’s worth of compensation for his sacrifice – not because the only reason Pat had joined up in the first place was to avoid a prison sentence for his part in running the betting shop, but because no ailing veteran ever got a penny in those circumstances. So it was decided that no Kennedy boy was going to suffer as Pat had, nor any Kennedy wife as Gwenda had over the years when Mick was struck by one of his black moods. No Kennedy boy was going to war.

Only Stevie wasn’t a Kennedy. He was an O’Halligan and so by definition often difficult to fathom: as much as his father had been incomprehensibly stubborn and belligerent, Stevie was as incomprehensibly kind and dutiful. In the months leading up to the war, it had weighed heavily on him to read in the papers that the Jews of Poland and Germany were being forced out of their homes, just because of their religion; it worried him, too, to think that the Poles themselves – his fellow Roman Catholics – were now being forced to salute a Nazi dictator. But it concerned him most that all these

Wild Chicory — by Kim Kelly young fellows around him – bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and bonkers – were running off headlong into disaster without enough older blokes to keep them steady. Not that Stevie was any battle-hardened veteran – all he knew about any of it was his compulsory few months of cadets almost twenty years ago now, in which he’d enjoyed running around the bush out at Ingleburn with a bunch of mates, firing off old .303s at targets rather than tin cans, the sort of thing that eighteen-year-old boys do of their own accord anyway. And the sort of thing that Stevie himself had a fairly natural talent for.

So then, it was a fatherly instinct, and perhaps not having sons of his own to shoot tin cans with, that drove him to do what he did: join up with the Australian Army, at the age of thirty-seven.

And Nell was not happy about it at all. She’d never said no to her husband before, but she said it emphatically now: ‘No.’ Although he might have been mild in every other sense, Steven O’Halligan was fierce in his decency, and he replied to his wife: ‘I’m sorry, Nell, but it’s already done.’

There would be no further discussion on the subject. It must be remembered that this man was once the boy who had stood up to his own father at the age of ten and told him he was going to Sydney, to his Aunt Hannah, to be near his mother when she was almost at her end. He packed a bag and started walking the one hundred and fifty miles from Guyong – only one of the neighbours, Mr Graham, took him up to the train at Bathurst and gave him the fare. Now, the Dairy Co-op were giving their best accounts clerk a guarantee that he’d have his job back when he came home. Stevie was that sort of fellow: so decent that most others couldn’t help being decent in return.

He spent the first two years out at Ingleburn, barely twenty-five miles from his girls, training the young fellows in how to hit targets in the bush, and since the army didn’t like sending away married men with families to feed, as that would be burdensome for everyone involved, it almost looked as though he’d go no further. But then the Empire of Japan dropped their bombs on Hawaii and he soon enough got sent away. Not to rescue Poles or Jews, though. Sergeant O’Halligan got send to the jungles of New Guinea.

‘Practically not even out of the country,’ he reassured his wife on leaving, but Nell was far from reassured. She went into such a state of churning she could have been put to work making butter for the Co-op. For the first fortnight he was away, she smoked so many cigarettes, she’d give herself a blinding headache by lunchtime. But then she realised she had to pull up her socks and fight, too – for her sanity. So, she did the only sensible thing she could do: she went back to work

for the public service – in the Department of Education, in the general typing pool. It wasn’t hard to get a job this time. With all the men away, all she had to do was tell one small fib on the application form, ticking the box to say that she was unmarried, and it wasn’t hard for Nell to keep at it, either. Her girls were all at school now, even tiny Diane just started, and each afternoon the little sisters would trot off like a line of paper dollies from Saint Michael’s school up the end of the street to the Convent of Mercy, to help the Big Sisters make soup for the poor. It was beneficial for everyone involved.

‘I don’t know how you’re managing to do it all, Ellen Mary,’ her mother remarked to her one Saturday afternoon, as she helped her hang out the children’s smalls on the balcony rack to dry. It was every second Saturday now her mother would come over to the flat in Petersham – it had to be because of Nell’s job – and at her mother’s comment just now and her rousing ‘Ellen Mary’ she was getting ready to sigh, taking it as criticism – for never having the washing done, for getting the girls too late to bed, for lying on the public-service application form and tempting the Devil in, et cetera, et cetera. Most days Nell felt she did nothing right, never her full attention on any task, always robbing Peter to pay Paul; perhaps the Devil had her right where she deserved to be. But her mother now put her old hand on her own and said: ‘My daughter, you are a Kennedy through and through, putting your shoulder to it, the way you do.’

Angels fluttered a chorus of alleluias through her daughters’ smalls at this high praise, and Nell had to look away for a moment to quell her emotions.

But, praise or not, it was just as well Nell had that job and some semblance of sanity to fall back on, as Stevie went missing-inaction the following June, in 1943. Up until then he’d written a note or a postcard to her almost every week for over a year, unless he warned her he’d be otherwise engaged, and in them, apart from his words of love and encouragement, he mostly detailed only the dull, repetitive nature of military life and how the only interesting things that ever seemed to occur were the multitude of tropical diseases that you could pick up. She knew he was at least half lying – and she lied right back, not telling him about the job with the Education Department, or how terrified she was sometimes in the night, so terrified she clutched her rosary beads so that they dug into the palm of her hand. But one day the letters simply stopped. In their place came a series of telegrams from the Department of Army: the first one informing her of his death; the second unapologetically amending that a few days later to missing-in-action, presumed taken prisoner; and the third informing her that as a result of an error in accounting, his

pay had been suspended – which meant that the £3/6s. he’d been sending to her each month also disappeared. She wasn’t in the slightest bit interested in the money – she never recalled giving it a thought. In fact, she would never be able to remember what she felt or what she did across those brief but intensely painful weeks, except that she typed a lot of letters about some changes to the New South Wales primary school curriculum, and that Carole had had quite bad gastro and had had to go to her mother in Surry Hills for a few days.

Stevie was eventually found: she received a telegram from the man himself on August the fourteenth, 1943, at three o’clock in the afternoon, saying only, Brisbane. Resting. It was a Saturday afternoon, but not a Mumvisit one, and she was alone when the post boy came. The girls were playing in the little yard beneath the balcony, under the mandarin tree there. Nell watched them for a while, leaning on the rail, and she knew from that moment that he was safe, that everything would be all right. She felt the warm hand of Jesus on her shoulder telling her it was so, and this was no imaginary thing: she saw the dirt beneath his fingernails.

She would never discover what had really occurred to her Stevie – that he and five of the others in his company had become separated in fighting in the Solomon Islands, caught up in the Japanese retreat. She would never know how close her husband and his comrades came to being executed as they put their hands up in surrender, the Japanese officer changing his mind and deciding his men didn’t have that second to waste to get away themselves. She would never know that the toll of this and all other untold horror he witnessed in the islands and in the jungles of New Guinea meant that Stevie had to be pulled from the front, and go back to training boys in shooting tin cans, in the bush in Cowra and Coonabarabran, until his nerves came right.

When he finally came home, at Easter 1944, she knew not to ask. She knew enough: he now smoked more than she did.

He told her in careful silence on the subject, ‘You don’t have to worry about me, Nell.

There are plenty who’ve had a much harder time of it.’

She knew that was the whole truth: there were always plenty who were having a much harder time of it at any one moment.

Stevie was demobbed at Easter 1946, and that was an end to it. He took no joy from the bombs that had been dropped on the ordinary people of Japan to force their surrender, but neither would he ever buy anything made in that country – not for all the days of his life would he touch something he thought a Jap might have touched before him; not a shiny

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Wild Chicory — by Kim Kelly new shifting spanner, not a child’s tin toy, no matter how cheap they came.

He went back to the accounts at the Dairy Co-op. He watched his girls grow into young women, playing basketball for the western suburbs regional team and winning freestyleswimming races for their school. His girls went to the best school they could afford – Bethlehem College, over in Ashfield – and they could afford to send all four of their girls right up to Leaving Certificate because Nell held onto her job at the Education Department. She was almost going to give it up – keeping up the lie of being a spinster seemed so awful with every passing year, especially when their eldest, Jeannie, got married herself in 1952, to Vic – but then her brother Pat died suddenly, from an asthma attack, they said, and Nell decided one lie was as good as another. Pat died of the injury to his lungs from German mustard gas – that’s what should have been written on that particular form. Pat was the brother who had insisted upon her own education, too. She didn’t know what to do with her anger at his premature and needless passing away, apart from keeping on at the typing pool, and never eating mustard on her sandwiches again.

Dear Brigid, Mother Kennedy, didn’t last many months after that. Her walk slowed until she could not take the stairs of her house, never mind the train, the last strands of faint auburn in her hair turned white, but she had been independent and dignified to the end. Her funeral was attended by all of her surviving eleven sons and her daughter, and their combined brood of fifty-two children of their own – their ‘full deck’, as they had become known at that time. There were seven little great-grandbabies in attendance, too. So much for her to smile down on from heaven, there was not one tear shed at her farewell. She was returned to her beloved Daniel. She was two weeks and three days from turning eighty, and they buried her beside her husband at Rookwood Cemetery, under a Celtic cross.

There was too much family and too many things always going on in it for grief to bite too hard that sad day – and possibly far too much alcohol consumed at the wake as well, as Mother Kennedy had always insisted upon moderation but wasn’t around now to make her displeasure known. Dan, now sixty-three years old, got so drunk his sons had to carry him home in a taxi.

As for Nell, the time soon came for her to give all fibs away in the world of men, too, as Jeannie was carrying the first of her grandchildren, and Grandma couldn’t be in two places at once, could she. If her own mother, Brigid, had been partial to a bub, Nell O’Halligan made an art form out of her own devotedness. As each of her daughters married – next was Carole to Brian, and then Beverley to Geoff – Grandma Nell soon found herself in at least three different places at once. Jeannie and Vic moved out to

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Campbelltown, where they had a small farm, and where Vic was a vet; Carole and Brian, who was an engineer with a North Sydney firm, moved up to Turramurra; Beverley and Geoff went to Kogarah, where Geoff was an assistant planning officer with the Cumberland County Council. Oh how pleased, how constantly, beaming pleased Nell was as she darted here and there along the train lines across all of sprawling Sydney, going to her grandbabies, knowing that their fathers were all good men with good jobs, and her daughters were content in their spacious, handsome homes. She’d made all their wedding dresses; the bridesmaids’, too.

She wasn’t so thrilled at Diane’s choice of husband, though. Diane, the youngest, took her time choosing and when she did, she married a foreigner. His name was David Boszko – and he was Polish, his parents having fled that sorely ravaged country after the war. They hardly spoke a word of English.

‘Are you sure?’ she asked her daughter. The last thing she wanted to do was sound like a bigot or force a rift, as her own mother had done, so she pried as carefully as she could.

‘Mum.’ Diane rolled her eyes at her mother’s ignorance. ‘We’ve been dating for five years – and I’ve known him since school.’

‘Oh?’ it was all news to Nell.

But it was true: David Boszko had graduated with the Physics prize from De La Salle College in 1952, and he’d been waiting and working to get himself in a position to ask Diane to marry him before he did.

‘But he’s only a mechanic,’ Nell whispered to Stevie in the dark of night, and she could hardly believe she’d said such a snobbish thing, either.

Her snobbishness was diving only lower and lower, though, the more she worried: David Boszko’s mother was a cleaner at Camperdown Hospital, and his father was a concrete layer.

‘How do we know Diane will be well looked after?’

Stevie, as much as he sympathised with her worry, could only laugh at this one. ‘Nell. The boy’s a mechanic with a university degree in automotive electricals, who’s just got his own shop open on Parramatta Road. I don’t think he’s too backward.’

And that was true, too. David Boszko’s parents had slaved to put him through university, and had even helped him get the lease on the shop – Boszko’s Batteries – right among the car yards at Strathfield, in prime position. He was the only egg in their basket, and they would do anything to have him succeed.

‘Besides,’ Stevie turned to his wife and kissed her on the forehead, ‘he’s Catholic. A good Catholic kid who works hard and doesn’t mind getting his own hands dirty. He’ll be the one you love the most.’

That turned out truest of all. Diane’s Dave

would be the most considerate and thoughtful of her sons-in-law, even if he had a strange, deadpan sense of humour, and she could never tell whether he was making a joke or being serious. It must have been a Polish trait – his father, Leon, was just the same. Nell practised saying Boszko – boshhh-ko – and not talking to the boy’s mother, Marta, as if she was deaf.

She quickly fell a little bit in love with Marta’s cabbage rolls, but Marta would pretend she didn’t have enough English to tell her exactly what was in the sauce. Best of all, whenever Stevie looked at young Dave, it helped him to believe that, whatever the reasons his own country had sent him through hell, it had been somehow worth it to see this boy grab his opportunities here with both hands, catching the sun in his strong Polish arms.

The first of the Boszko babies came along in February 1960 – that was Shane – and Tim came in a screaming hurry after him in November ’61. When Tim was born, Shane hit him over the head with a bottle of Johnsons baby powder, and things between them stayed fairly much that way from then on. Nell called them Whack and Wail. Diane and Dave only ever intended having the two, and as soon as Shane was in school and Tim in kindergarten, Diane went back to work herself, doing the accounts for Taubman’s paint in York Street, in town, because they let her knock off at three. Diane was a diligent planner – neatest handwriting of anyone on earth, that girl – and she’d put all her pay away as if she’d never got it, money they would use to take the kids travelling one day, to Ireland, to Poland, and to get a proper inside bathroom put into their old and rickety Marrickville house; maybe a swimming pool for the backyard, too. Diane always had a long view.

She didn’t see her surprise coming, though.

Luck of the Irish and Poles combined to send her an unexpected daughter, born in September 1966. Diane, in her ever-practical, get-whatyou’re-given way, hadn’t even picked out a name.

‘Mum,’ she said, ‘why don’t you choose?’

Nell had never felt so honoured in her life. She’d never seen such a pretty baby in her life, either, and she’d seen a lot of babies. This one had her mother’s wide blue wondering Kennedy eyes but her father’s dark hair, and his creamy skin that would tan in the summer. She looked like a little pixie plucked from a field of flowers on a hillside above Ballymacyarn. This one would be the last of her grandbabies, Nell O’Halligan had no doubt. There was only one name for her then, and that was Brigid Danielle – after Nell’s own mother and father and the place where she was born, the place where her own heart began.

‘Brigid.’ Diane nodded at her tiny daughter, and at the memory of her grandmother. To Diane, Brigid Kennedy had been a statuesque figure always in black, a capable woman, strong and stern – until she smiled, passing sweets under the table to anyone who was glum. Grandmother

Wild Chicory — by Kim Kelly Kennedy had a laugh that was sparingly used, but when it was it shook the world. Diane Boszko smiled at her own mother now down this centuries’ long chain of love: ‘Brigid, it is.’

And as that chain goes along and along, Nell often had cause to worry about all her daughters’ ways over the years. She thought Jeannie spoiled her Jane, Matt and Jason too much, always saying yes to them; she thought Carole gave her Sarah and Greg too many high-and-mighty ideas; she thought Beverley let her Brad, Jen and Karen spend too much time at the beach; she thought Diane was too hard on her Shane, Tim and Bridge, such high expectations of homework and minding manners. But Nell didn’t say anything to any of them in criticism. They were all doing their best, and their best was always better than any mistake they might have made. Most lovely of all, she would sometimes catch the look of wonder in Diane’s eyes when she looked at her young Brigid’s schoolwork, or the funny little stories she’d write on random pages in exercise books. Diane kept every scrap: folding all of it carefully into the Z pockets of her concertina family-document files, year after year.

All the while, no matter where Nell went, whatever she might have on her dance card for the day, be it a sports match or a performance at one of their schools or shopping for uniform fabric in town, she’d make Stevie his sandwiches before he left for work. She made them out of pipe-loaf bread, the best white bread, roast beef and sweet pickle. These special loaves were made by the once-famous Abbco bakery, but as the years rolled on they fell out of fashion; you couldn’t get them at any general grocers, only at certain shops, and Nell went all the way to Town Hall station twice weekly to get her supply for Stevie’s lunch. Circle sandwiches, one of the grandchildren once called them, she’d forgotten which one, but circles they surely were: circle after circle of unbroken devotion.

And every morning still, Stevie O’Halligan kissed his wife when he left for the day; he kissed her again in the evenings, when he returned. Stevie and Nell never made any great pile of money, they never bought a house or a car – they missed that boat, Stevie would always say, and always with a wink. He never went past doing the accounts for the Dairy Coop at the Fairfield warehouse; it was a safe job, and safety was all he wanted, after the things he’d seen of life’s privations and cruelties. The highest up the ladder the O’Halligans ever went was to be the first in their little Petersham block of flats to get the phone put on, back in 1949, and that was all for safety, too. Humble they might have been, but their family never went without.

Love. Food. Laughter. The comfort of a warm heart on a cold day: what else is there?

When Stevie was getting ready to retire, what little pile of money they had they used to build a small flat over the back of Diane and Dave’s in

Marrickville, in 1973. It was good for everyone, all round – especially Diane, for she could work until five pm now that she would have unhired help at home in the form of her mum.

Marrickville was a bit of a shock at first, with all the Greeks and Italians having moved in there, but Nell soon discovered a liking for veal scaloppini at Papa’s Italian Bistro on the corner of Illawarra Road, and made friends with the Greek yia yia, Vicki Angelopoulos, next door.

Stevie was seventy-two years old and still not quite retired at Christmas, 1975. He’d received a beautiful silver watch from the Co-op in anticipation of it, though. The new bookkeeper they had employed – a fellow called Terry Barnsley who was studying accountancy at night at university, and who Stevie had interviewed himself and recommended to the board as a bright young bloke – couldn’t cope if ever it got busy. The place would be in a mess in five minutes, with suppliers unpaid, and deliveries delayed. Stevie was beginning to think he’d backed the wrong horse – his heart had always been soft, but maybe his mind was getting soft, too. This young fellow had seemed keen to get ahead, but maybe he was too keen to do that without too much actual working.

As it was, it meant Stevie was back at the job straight after Christmas, on December thirtieth, to rescue Terry from himself when the orders rushed in between the public holidays.

For the first time ever, as he got ready that morning, he wondered if he could be bothered.

The earth wouldn’t stop turning if he didn’t go in. The lad would just have to learn to stand up to the job.

He sighed as Nell handed him his lunch bag, packed with his sandwich and a peach, today.

He kissed her as he always did, and winked as he’d wink a hundred times: ‘I’m not going to do this again.’

Nell laughed – at him. She said at the door: ‘Take your raincoat – it’s going to rain.’

He shook his head. ‘I won’t shrink if it does. See you about seven, I’d say.’

It started raining at about eleven that morning and it rained on and on nonstop all day. Unlike the usual summer rain, which came in crashing, evening bursts, this was more like a midwinter drizzle. It was oddly chilly, too. Nell had felt her spirits dampen with the weather, and although she’d meant to pay a visit to her brother Dom, who was nearing eighty, half-deaf and fading fast, she couldn’t imagine getting on the train and going all the way to his house in Epping.

She’d felt stuck to her chair in the kitchen, and all day her head ran through with morbid thoughts. Five of her brothers were gone now – in order of disappearance, Pat, Mick, Dan, Chris and Frank; two of her friends from mass had died in the last month, too. She lit yet another cigarette, as if it might push death away.

It was nearing six o’clock, and she felt her

stomach churning over and over, round and round – nothing, she told herself. I’m a silly old woman. Steve’ll be home in an hour or so. In between the decades of her rosary meditations, round and round prayers for each of her babies, she concentrated on letting the sound of her husband’s laughter run through her mind. She smiled at a memory of Christmas just gone: over a beer, he and Leon had been discussing the fors and againsts of communism, and when Stevie had wondered if Gough Whitlam’s trouble had been that he went too far or didn’t go far enough in making laws fairer for ordinary people, Leon had replied that Gough Whitlam wouldn’t know communism if it confiscated his silver spoon. Stevie, who always seemed tuned in to Leon’s jokes, laughed so hard at that one, the sound seemed suddenly now to fill the room.

Only to fall as suddenly quiet once more. She listened to the rain hitting the window. She listened to her grandsons Shane and Tim knock something over downstairs – possibly one of the dining chairs. Little Brigid shrieked out: ‘Stop it!’

Diane must have been busy somewhere else in the house, so Nell got up to investigate. Halfway down the stairs, she heard a knock at the door.

Then she heard Diane open it.

As Nell stepped into the hall at the foot of the stairs, she saw the policeman standing there, asking her daughter: ‘Is Mrs Ellen O’Halligan here?’

— AUTHOR NOTE —

Fact and fiction always play a merry game in my tales and Wild Chicory is no exception. I’ve thieved much of its truth and its hea rt from the lore of my Irish family – the Kellys and the O’Reillys – and I’ve pinched others from my hus band, Dean’s family, the Brownlees and the O’Bree s, especially from Aunty Yvonne. The rest is bla rney.

This is a story spun from my admiration for the economic refugees who have contributed to Australia from all over the wor ld, all you brave wanderers, the ordinary har d-working dreamers who have made and continu e to make our country what it is: a colourful patchw ork of beauty and bigotry both, all sewn togeth er with love. And no small part of its intricately cra zed design is Irish.

Indeed, Australia remains pro portionately the most Irish country outside Irel and.

But most of all, Wild Chicory is the story of how I came to be a writer myself, by the love of those who fed my soul their own sto ries when I was small, especially my grandmother, Lillian.

To those who have helped brin g this story into the world, thankyou is never a larg e enough word. Lou Johnson, my inspiring publish er, and Alex Nahlous, my excellent editor, as well as all those comrades and readers who egged me on along the way: this book wouldn’t be here withou t you.

So, slàinte, friends – I hope you enjoyed the tale.

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7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic. 9.15 Love On The Spectrum. 10.10 Catalyst. 11.05 Tate Britain’s Great British Walks. 11.55 You Can’t Ask That. 12.25 Black Mirror. 1.15 Restoration Australia. 2.20 Close. 5.05 Timmy Time. 5.25 The Furchester Hotel. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

9.00 Croatian News. 9.30 Serbian News. 10.00 Portuguese News. 10.50 Urdu News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 The Goddam Election! With John Safran. 1.00 New Girl. 2.30 America: News. 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 20. Illawarra Hawks v Adelaide 36ers. 5.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 20.

New Zealand Breakers v Brisbane Bullets. 7.00 Monty Python. 7.35 Abandoned Engineering.

8.30 The UnXplained With William Shatner.

9.20 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 21. Senago to Milano. 2.00 Weediquette. 2.30 France 24. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News.

4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Basketball. EuroLeague.

Championship Game.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.25 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.45 Operation Ouch! 12.15 Horrible Histories. 12.45 Deadly Dinosaurs. 1.15 Get It Together! 1.40 Winston Steinburger. 2.05 Danger Mouse. 2.20 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 2.40 Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors? 3.05 Top Chef Jr. 4.00 The Dengineers. 4.35 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.00 So Awkward. 5.25 Dogstar. 6.00 The Deep. 6.30 The Wonderful World Of Kittens. 7.35 Adv Of Puss In Boots.

8.00 TMNT. 9.05 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk.

9.25 Lost In Oz. 9.50 Rage. 10.50 Close. 5.30 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

It’s Academic.

(66) 6.00 7.00 ZooMoo Wild Friends. 8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Flushed.

10.00 SA Weekender.

10.30 Creek To Coast.

11.00 Weekender.

11.30 Britain’s Got Talent Best And Worst.

2.15 To Be Advised.

5.15 MOVIE: Veronica Mars. (2014) 7.30 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell.

8.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

10.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. 11.30 Hell’s Kitchen USA. 12.30 American Crime.

2.30 Bones. 5.30 Black-ish.

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Horse Racing. Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation Day, Derby Day and Caulfield Race Day. 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Surveillance Oz. 7.30 MOVIE: Captain America: The First Avenger. (2011) Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving. During World War II, a young man volunteers for a top-secret research project which turns him into a superhero. (M) 10.00 MOVIE: Wind River. (2017) Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene. An animal tracker stumbles on the body of a murdered Native American girl. (MA15+) 12.15 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship.

Round 5. Winton SuperSprint. Highlights. From Winton Motor Raceway, Victoria.

1.30 Home Shopping.

6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00 Ready 4 Adventure.

12.30 Animal Embassy. 1.00 Reel Destinations.

1.30 Celebrity Apprentice Australia. 3.00 Netball.

Super Netball. Round 5. Queensland Firebirds v Melbourne Vixens. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Getaway.

6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 David Attenborough’s A Perfect Planet: Volcano. New. 8.40 MOVIE: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

(2018) Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall. Two former staff of the Jurassic World theme park try to rescue dinosaurs from a volcanic eruption. (M) 11.10 MOVIE: Get Out. (2017) Daniel Kaluuya.

(MA15+) 1.05 New Amsterdam.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.30 Global Shop. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

5.30 Wesley Impact.

6.00 WhichCar. 6.30 Entertainment Tonight.

7.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 7.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. 8.30 All 4 Adventure. 9.30 Studio 10: Saturday. 12.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

12.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

1.00 My Market Kitchen. 1.30 Healthy Homes Australia. 2.00 To Be Advised. 3.00 What’s Up Down Under. 3.30 The Living Room.

4.30 Farm To Fork.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 Advancing Australia.

6.30 Bondi Rescue.

7.00 The Dog House.

8.00 MOVIE: A Quiet Place. (2018) John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds. A family struggles to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where humans are hunted by monsters.

10.00 999: What’s Your Emergency?

11.00 NCIS. 12.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

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Home (62) 6.00 Shopping. 9.15 Travel Oz. 10.00 Insider Trading. 11.00 Bargain Hunt. 12.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 12.30 Weekender. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 Creek To Coast. 2.30 Sydney Weekender. 3.00 Property Ladder. 4.15 Property Ladder UK. 5.30 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea. 6.30 Dr Harry’s Animal Encounters.

7.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country.

11.30 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea. 12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Weekender. 4.00 Creek To Coast. 4.30 Sydney Weekender. 5.00 Home Shopping.

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6.00 Fishy Business. 7.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. 8.00 Home Shopping.

10.00 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 10.30 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 11.00 Roll With It. 11.30 Life Off Road. 12.00 Bull Riding. PBR Australia. Replay. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Storage Wars. 2.00 Football.

AFL. Round 11. Brisbane Lions v GWS Giants.

5.00 Picked Off. 6.00 American Restoration.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. 7.30 Football. AFL. Round 11. Gold Coast Suns v Hawthorn. 11.00 AFL Post-Game Show. 11.30 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 5. Winton SuperSprint.

Highlights. 12.50 Late Programs.

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Newstyle (52) 6.00 Direct. 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite Martian.

10.30 Adventures In Rainbow Country. 11.00 The Avengers. 12.00 The Baron. 1.00 MOVIE: Saturday Island. (1952) Linda Darnell. 3.00 MOVIE: A Hole In The Head. (1959) Frank Sinatra, Edward G Robinson. 5.30 MOVIE: Foreign Intrigue. (1956) Robert Mitchum, Jean Galland, Genevieve Page. 7.30 Rugby Union. Super Rugby Trans Tasman. Round 3. Queensland Reds v Chiefs. 9.45 Super Rugby Trans Tasman: Post Match. 10.00 MOVIE: The Spy Who Loved Me. (1977) Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens.

12.35 My Favorite Martian. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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6.00 Kids’ Programs.

1.00 Power Rangers Dino Super. 1.30 Social Fabric. 2.00 Road Trick. 2.30 The Break Boys. 3.00 Clarence. 3.15 MOVIE: Pokémon: The Rise Of Darkrai. (2007) 5.05 MOVIE: The Adventures Of Sharkboy And Lavagirl. (2005) 7.00 MOVIE: The Mummy Returns. (2001) Brendan Fraser. 9.35 MOVIE: The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor.

(2008) Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello. 11.50 Japandemonium. 12.20 The Bi Life. 1.20 Bad Teen To Ballroom Queen. 2.20 Social Fabric. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Super. 3.30 Thunderbirds.

4.30 Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy. 4.50 Monkie Kid. 5.10 Nexo Knights. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Diagnosis Murder.

12.00 JAG. 2.00 The Doctors. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 4.00 Bondi Rescue.

4.30 iFish.

5.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 5.30 Scorpion.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. Final.

10.20 To Be Advised.

11.20 Hawaii Five-0. 1.10 MOVIE: Forced Vengeance. (1982) Chuck Norris, Camila Griggs.

3.35 Escape Fishing With ET. 4.05 The Doctors.

5.00 Home Shopping.

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6.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 Posh Frock Shop. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Becker. 10.00 The Dog House. 11.00 MasterChef Australia. 2.50 Frasier. 3.40 Friends.

6.00 Columbo.

7.30 Kojak.

8.25 Spyforce.

9.20 The Big Bang Theory.

9.45 Friends.

10.45 MOVIE: Cockneys Vs Zombies. (2012) 12.30 Home Shopping. 1.30 Charmed. 2.30 Supernatural. 3.30 100% Hotter. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Kochie’s Your Money & Your Life.

1.30 To Be Advised.

3.00 Dog Patrol.

3.30 Border Patrol.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 7NEWS Spotlight: Ride Of Your Life.

8.15 Crime Investigation Australia: Most Infamous: The Moorhouse Horrors.

9.30 The Real Manhunter: The Murder Of Christopher Donovan.

10.30 Criminal Confessions.

11.30 The Blacklist. 12.30 Motor Racing.

Supercars Championship. Round 5. Winton SuperSprint. Highlights. 1.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Easy Eats.

7.00 Weekend Today.

10.00 Sports Sunday.

11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show.

1.00 Netball. Super Netball. Round 5. Adelaide Thunderbirds v Sunshine Coast Lightning. From Netball SA Stadium, Adelaide.

3.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 12. Newcastle Knights v Manly Sea Eagles. From McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Celebrity Apprentice Australia.

8.40 60 Minutes.

9.40 Nine News Late.

10.10 Law & Order: Organized Crime.

11.10 Tennis. French Open. Day 1. From RolandGarros Stadium, Paris, France.

4.00 The Xtreme CollXtion.

4.30 Reel Destinations.

5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.00 Mass For You At Home. 6.30 Hillsong. 7.00 Leading The Way With Dr Michael Youssef. 7.30 Fishing Australia. 8.00 Pooches At Play. 8.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 9.00 Australia

By Design: Architecture. 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

12.00 Advancing Australia.

12.30 Left Off The Map. 1.00 My Market Kitchen.

1.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

2.00 MasterChef Australia.

3.10 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

3.30 Hotels By Design.

4.00 Fishing Australia.

4.30 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn.

5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Sunday Project.

7.30 MasterChef Australia.

9.00 FBI: Most Wanted. Final.

10.00 FBI. 11.00 The Sunday Project.

12.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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TV Shop: Home (52) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Amazing Facts Presents. 7.00 Leading The Way. 7.30 In Touch Ministries. 8.00 Beyond Today.

8.30 The Incredible Journey Presents. 9.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 The AFL Sunday Footy Show. 12.00 Getaway. 12.30 MOVIE: Devil Girl From Mars. (1954) Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds. 2.05 MOVIE: Kings Of The Sun. (1963) Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field.

4.15 MOVIE: Donovan’s Reef. (1963) John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen. 6.30 French Open Tennis Pre-Show. 7.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 1.

11.10 Chicago Med. 12.05 Murdered By Morning.

1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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(53) 6.00 11.00 Ninjago. 11.30 Lego City Adventures. 12.00 Bakugan: Geogan Rising. 12.30 Beyblade Burst Surge. 1.00 Power Rangers Dino Super. 1.30 The Break Boys. 2.00 Dance Moms. 3.00 MOVIE: Take The Lead.

(2006) 5.30 MOVIE: The Spy Next Door. (2010) 7.30 MOVIE: Jupiter Ascending. (2015) Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum. 10.00 MOVIE: Underworld.

(2003) Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman. 12.30 The Bi Life. 1.30 Dance Moms. 2.30 The Break Boys. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Super. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon The Series: Sun & Moon. 4.50 Ninjago. 5.10 Lego City Adventures.

5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

Home (62) 6.00 Shopping. 9.00 To Be Advised. 9.30 Life Off Road. 10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 The Surgery Ship. 12.00 Dr Harry’s Animal Encounters. 1.00 The Zoo. 1.30 Our Town.

2.00 The Bowls Show.

3.00 My Greek Odyssey.

4.00 Escape To The Country.

7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

8.30 Air Crash Investigation: No Warning.

11.30 Border Patrol. 12.00 Australia’s Deadliest.

12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Our Town. 4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Cold Feet. 5.30 Home Shopping.

Canadian (63) 6.00 Pickers. 7.00 Picked Off. 8.00 Home Shopping. 10.00 Fishing.

Australian Championships. 11.00 Oz Fish TV. 11.30 River To Reef: Retro. 12.00 The Fishing Show. 1.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 1.30 On Tour With Allan Border. 2.00 Merv Hughes Fishing. 2.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 3.00 Football. AFL. Round 11. Sydney v Carlton. 6.00 American Restoration. 6.30 MOVIE: Fantastic Four. (2015) Miles Teller. 8.35 MOVIE: Men In Black: International. (2019) Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Liam Neeson. 10.55 Hardcore Pawn. 11.55 Canadian Pickers. 1.00 Blokesworld.

1.30 American Restoration. 2.00 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Bondi Rescue. 8.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 11.00 Scorpion. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Diagnosis Murder. 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. 4.00 Pooches At Play. 4.30 What’s Up Down Under.

5.00 iFish Summer Series. 5.30 Advancing Australia. 6.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Grand Prix of Italy. 11.15 Stories Of Bikes. 11.45 48 Hours.

12.45 Blue Bloods. 1.45 iFish Summer Series. 2.15 MOVIE: Cockneys Vs Zombies. (2012) 4.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 5.00 The Doctors.

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(82) 6.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 The Neighborhood.

8.00 Neighbours.

10.30 MasterChef Australia.

12.50 100% Hotter.

1.50 The Neighborhood.

2.50 Friends.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory.

8.30 Friends.

10.00 2 Broke Girls.

11.30 Mom. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Posh Frock Shop. 2.30 Charmed. 3.30 A Million Little Things. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Landline. 11.00 Hawke: The Larrikin And The Leader. Final. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 The Durrells. 1.50 Agatha Raisin. Final. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Think Tank. 4.55 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery.

5.25 Hard Quiz. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.15 Media Watch. 9.35 Baby Surgeons. 10.20 ABC Late News. 10.55 Love On The Spectrum. 11.50 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 6.30 This Week. 7.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Highlights.

8.00 WorldWatch. 2.05 Michael Portillo’s Abandoned Britain. 3.00 Railway Journeys UK. 3.35 The Cook Up. 4.05 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Highlights. 5.05 Jeopardy!

5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News. 7.35 Secrets Of The Tower Of London. 8.30 Secret Scotland. 9.25 24 Hours In Emergency. 10.20 SBS News. 10.50 Darklands.

11.45 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 6.25 Peter Rabbit. 6.45 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 7.00 Grace’s Amazing Machines.

7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive. 9.35 Doctor Who. 10.25 Back In Time For Dinner. Final. 11.25 The Set. 12.00 Escape From The City. 12.55 Extras. 1.25 Parks And Recreation. 1.50 30 Rock. 2.10 Peep Show.

3.05 Back In Very Small Business. 3.40 Close.

5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 Basketball.

EuroLeague. Championship Game. Continued.

7.00 WorldWatch. 12.00 The X-Files. 1.40 The Last Man On Earth. 3.00 Curse Of Oak Island.

3.55 WorldWatch. 4.20 This Week. 5.15 Joy Of Painting. 5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster. 10.20 Cycling.

UCI World Tour. Criterium du Dauphiné. Stage 2. Brioude to Saugues. 12.20 The Point. 1.20 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.05 Find Me In Paris. 2.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.55 The Next Step. 3.20 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.35 Gym Stars. 4.00 The Dengineers. 4.35 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.00 So Awkward. 5.25 Dogstar.

6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 Adv Of Puss In Boots.

8.00 TMNT. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 9.05 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 9.25 Lost In Oz. 9.50 Rage.

10.50 Close. 5.30 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

It’s (66) 6.00 Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 Bride And Prejudice: The Forbidden Weddings. 12.00 How To Get Away With Murder. 1.00 Blindspot. 3.00 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 To Be Advised. 6.00 Futurama.

6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Tattoo Nightmares.

8.30 Ink Master.

10.30 Ink Master: Redemption. 12.30 90210.

3.30 Blindspot. 5.30 Black-ish.

News (2) 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. 11.00 Antiques Roadshow. 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Sanditon. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Think Tank. 5.00 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. 5.25 Hard Quiz. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30. 8.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 8.30 Love On The Spectrum. 9.25 Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic. 10.10 China Tonight. 10.40 ABC Late News. 11.15 Q+A. 12.20 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.10 (3) How The Victorians Built Britain. 3.00 Living Black. 3.30 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 4.05 The Great House Revival. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News.

7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.30 Insight.

9.30 Dateline. 10.00 The Feed. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 The Point. 12.00 Taken Down. 1.00 Blinded. 2.45 Alex Polizzi: Chef For Hire. 3.55 24 Hours In Emergency. 5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.55 Remy & Boo. 6.25 Peter Rabbit.

6.45 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 7.00 Grace’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.50 Back. Final. 9.20 Doctor Who. 10.10 Extras. Final. 10.40 The Games. 11.05 Would I Lie To You? 11.35 Live From The BBC. Final. 12.25 Unprotected Sets. 1.20 Parks And Recreation. 1.40 30 Rock. 2.05 Peep Show. 2.55 Back In Very Small Business. 3.30 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 The X-Files. 1.40 The Last Man On Earth.

3.00 Curse Of Oak Island. 3.50 WorldWatch.

5.15 Joy Of Painting. 5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Patriot Brains.

9.20 Creamerie. 10.20 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Criterium du Dauphiné. Stage 3. Langeac to Saint-Haon-le-Vieux. 12.20 Prohibition In Northern Canada. 12.45 King Of The Road. 1.35 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.05 Find Me In Paris. 2.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.55 The Next Step. 3.20 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.35 Gym Stars. 4.00 The Dengineers. 4.35 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.00 So Awkward. 5.25 Dogstar.

6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 Adv Of Puss In Boots.

8.00 TMNT. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 9.05 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 9.25 Lost In Oz. 9.50 Rage.

10.50 Close. 5.30 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

Morning (66) 6.00 Programs. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 Bride And Prejudice: The Forbidden Weddings. 12.00 How To Get Away With Murder. 1.00 Blindspot.

3.00 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama.

5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 MOVIE: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. (2005) Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Jeroen Krabbe. 10.10 MOVIE: Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates.

(2016) 12.10 Late Programs.

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6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.35 Media Watch. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 Think Tank. 4.55 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. 5.30 Hard Quiz. 6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz.

8.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 9.00 You Can’t Ask That. 9.35 QI. 10.05 The Set. 10.35 ABC Late News. 11.10 Four Corners. 11.55 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.05 Dateline. 2.35 Insight.

3.35 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 4.05 The Great House Revival. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust.

6.30 News. 7.35 Britain’s Cathedrals With Tony Robinson. 8.30 The Secrets Of Coca-Cola: The Billion Dollar Beverage. 9.40 Bloodlands. 10.45 SBS News. 11.15 Stella Blomkvist. 12.10 Blood.

2.50 Alex Polizzi: The Fixer. 3.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 6.45 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 7.00 Grace’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Odd Squad.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Art Works. 9.00 Tate Britain’s Great British Walks. 9.45 The Art Of Collecting. New. 10.15 Doctor Who. 11.05 Restoration Australia.

Final. 12.05 Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic.

12.50 Parks And Recreation. 1.10 30 Rock. 1.35 Peep Show. 2.25 Back In Very Small Business.

3.00 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 The X-Files. 1.40 The Last Man On Earth.

3.00 Curse Of Oak Island. 3.50 WorldWatch.

5.15 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross.

5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Forged In Fire.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.35 MOVIE: Source Code. (2011) Jake Gyllenhaal. 10.20 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Criterium du Dauphiné. Stage 4. Firminy to Roche-la-Molière. 12.20 News. 12.45 The Therapist. 1.45 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.55 The Next Step. 3.20 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch.

3.35 Gym Stars. 4.00 The Dengineers. 4.30 The Inbestigators. 5.00 So Awkward. 5.25 Dogstar.

6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 Adv Of Puss In Boots.

8.00 TMNT. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 8.45 The Bagel And Becky Show. 9.05 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 9.30 Lost In Oz. 9.50 Rage. 10.55 Close.

5.30 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

It’s (66) 6.00 Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 Bride And Prejudice: The Forbidden Weddings. 12.00 How To Get Away With Murder. 1.00 Blindspot. 3.00 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons.

6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.30 MOVIE: Patriot Games. (1992) Harrison Ford, Anne Archer. 10.00 MOVIE: The Bucket List.

(2007) Jack Nicholson. 12.00 Numb3rs. 2.00 Late Programs.

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Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 Think Tank. 5.00 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. 5.30 Hard Quiz. 6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Foreign Correspondent. Return. 8.30 Q+A. 9.35 A Life In Ten Pictures. 10.30 ABC Late News. 11.00 MOVIE: On A Clear Day. (2005) 12.40 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 2.05 How The Victorians Built Britain. 3.00 Railway Journeys UK. 3.35 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 4.05 The Great House Revival. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News. 7.35 Robson Green: Walking Hadrian’s Wall. 8.30 Miniseries: The Unusual Suspects.

9.30 The Handmaid’s Tale. 10.25 SBS News.

10.55 The Sleepers. 12.00 Dublin Murders.

2.15 Cruising With Jane McDonald. 3.05 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.30 Would I Lie To You? 9.00 To Be Advised. 9.30 Hard Quiz. 10.00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. 10.30 Doctor Who. 11.15 That Pacific Sports Show. 11.45 You Can’t Ask That. Final.

12.15 David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive. 1.20 Back. Final. 1.45 Parks And Recreation. 2.10 30 Rock. 2.30 Peep Show. 3.20 Back In Very Small Business. 3.55 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 The X-Files. 1.40 The Last Man On Earth.

3.00 Huang’s World. 3.50 WorldWatch. 5.15 NBL: Overtime. 5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 Shrill. Return. 10.20 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Criterium du Dauphiné. Stage 5.

Saint-Chamond to Saint-Vallier. 12.20 News.

12.45 Over The Black Dot. 1.40 The Feed. 2.10 South Park. 2.35 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.55 The Next Step. 3.20 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch.

3.35 Gym Stars. 4.00 The Dengineers. 4.30 The Inbestigators. 5.00 So Awkward. 5.25 Dogstar.

6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 Adv Of Puss In Boots.

8.00 TMNT. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 8.45 The Bagel And Becky Show. 9.05 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. 9.30 Lost In Oz. 9.50 Rage. 10.50 Close.

5.30 Dragons: Race To The Edge.

It’s (66) 6.00 Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 Bride And Prejudice: The Forbidden Weddings. 12.00 How To Get Away With Murder. 1.00 Blindspot. 3.00 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons.

6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.30 MOVIE: Patriot Games. (1992) Harrison Ford, Anne Archer. 10.00 MOVIE: The Bucket List.

(2007) Jack Nicholson. 12.00 Numb3rs. 2.00 Late Programs.

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(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Maid Of Honor. (2006) 2.00 Autopsy USA. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Big Brother.

9.00 9-1-1.

10.00 S.W.A.T. 11.00 The Latest: Seven News.

11.30 Station 19. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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(8) 6.00 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 MasterChef Australia. 2.30 Entertainment Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy.

3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 MasterChef Australia. 8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? 9.30 To Be Advised. 10.00 Just For Laughs. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Late Programs.

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8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 12.00 Walker, Texas Ranger.

1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 10.20 To Be Advised. 12.10 Home Shopping.

2.10 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 6. Grand Prix of Italy. Replay. 3.40 Escape Fishing With ET. 4.10 Elementary. 5.05 Star Trek: Voyager.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Explore. 1.15 Celebrity Apprentice Australia. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Celebrity Apprentice Australia.

9.00 Emergency.

10.00 100% Footy. 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 Tennis. French Open. Day 2. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

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7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 The Gulf. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Tender Mercies. (1983) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow.

6.30 French Open Tennis Pre-Show. 7.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 2. 11.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 12.30 Late Programs.

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(53) 6.00 11.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 12.00 Parenthood. 1.00 Timeless.

2.00 Sliders. 3.00 Liquid Science. 4.00 Police Interceptors. New. 5.00 Malcolm. 6.00 The Nanny. 6.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.00 That ’70s Show. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: Death Race. (2008) Jason Statham. 10.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 11.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 12.00 The Bi Life. 1.00 Bad Teen To Ballroom Queen. 2.00 Bridezillas. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

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6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Getaway. 1.30 Celebrity Apprentice Australia. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Celebrity Apprentice Australia.

9.00 The Weakest Link.

10.00 Kath & Kim. 11.10 Nine News Late. 11.40 Tennis. French Open. Day 3. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

Home (62) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 All The Things. 7.00 Property Ladder UK. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Kochie’s Your Money & Your Life. 11.00 The Bowls Show. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 The Surgery Ship. 2.00 My Greek Odyssey. 3.00 Australia’s Deadliest. 3.30 Air Crash Investigation. 4.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Judge John Deed. 10.30 Autopsy USA. 11.30 Air Crash Investigation.

12.30 Doc Martin. 1.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

12.15 MOVIE: Cobra. (1986) 2.00 American Restoration. 2.30 Graveyard Carz. 3.30 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 5.

Winton SuperSprint. Highlights. 4.30 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 5.

Winton SuperSprint. Highlights. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars.

7.30 Aussie Pickers. 8.30 MOVIE: Heartbreak Ridge. (1986) Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason.

11.15 MOVIE: Cobra. (1986) 1.00 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: New York Prison Break: The Seduction Of Joyce Mitchell. (2017) 2.00 Autopsy USA. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away.

7.30 Big Brother. 9.00 The Good Doctor. 10.00 The Resident. 11.00 The Latest: Seven News.

11.30 Station 19. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 12.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Blue Bloods.

10.25 NCIS: New Orleans. 11.20 To Be Advised.

12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 MOVIE: Forced Vengeance. (1982) 4.10 Hawaii Five-0. 5.05 JAG.

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(82) 6.00 Frasier.

7.00 Cheers. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 2 Broke Girls.

1.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Mom. 11.35 Frasier. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Everybody Loves Raymond.

2.30 Becker. 3.30 A Million Little Things. 4.30 Home Shopping.

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 12.00 Parenthood. 1.00 Timeless.

2.00 Sliders. 3.00 Malcolm. 3.30 The Nanny.

4.00 3rd Rock From The Sun. 4.30 That ’70s Show. 5.00 Malcolm. 6.00 The Nanny. 6.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.00 That ’70s Show.

7.30 MOVIE: The Core. (2003) 10.10 MOVIE: American Assassin. (2017) 12.20 3rd Rock From The Sun. 12.50 The Bi Life. 1.50 Big Fat Gypsy Weddings. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Surge. 3.30 Nexo Knights. 4.00 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Midwives. (2001) 2.00 Autopsy USA. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away.

7.30 Big Brother.

9.00 MOVIE: The Hangover Part III. (2013) 11.05 The Latest: Seven News. 11.35 Reckoning.

12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

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6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Driving Test. 1.30 Celebrity Apprentice Australia. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat.

5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Travel Guides.

8.30 Doctor Doctor.

9.30 New Amsterdam. 10.30 Nine News Late.

11.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 4. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

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Tennis.

(52) 6.00 French Open. Day 3. Continued. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian.

12.00 The Gulf. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Happy Go Lovely.

(1951) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. 6.30 French Open Tennis Pre-Show. 7.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 4. 11.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 12.00 Late Programs.

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(53) 6.00 11.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 12.00 Parenthood. 1.00 Timeless.

2.00 Sliders. 3.00 Malcolm. 3.30 The Nanny.

4.00 3rd Rock From The Sun. 4.30 That ’70s Show. 5.00 Malcolm. 6.00 The Nanny. 6.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.00 That ’70s Show. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: xXx: Return Of Xander Cage. (2017) 10.35 All New Traffic Cops. 11.35 3rd Rock From The Sun. 12.05 The Bi Life. 1.05 Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.

2.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

Home (62) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie. 7.00 Property Ladder UK. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Robbie Coltrane’s Critical Evidence. 2.00 Our Town. 2.30 Kochie’s Your Money & Your Life. 3.00 The Zoo. 3.30 Mighty Cruise Ships. 4.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 The Coroner. 8.30 A Touch Of Frost. 10.50 Mighty Rivers. 11.50 Property Ladder UK. 2.30 Home Shopping.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 American Pickers. 9.00 Swamp People. 10.00 NFL 100 Greatest. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Ax Men. 1.00 Storage Wars Canada. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Classic Restos: USA Edition. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Highway Thru Hell. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Simpsons.

9.00 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy. 11.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: My Neighbor’s Keeper. (2007) 2.00 Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 8.30 10 Years Younger In 10 Days. 9.30 How To Look Good Naked. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News.

11.00 The Front Bar. 12.00 Zumbo’s Just Desserts. 1.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Headline News. 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 MasterChef Australia.

2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 MasterChef Australia. 8.40 Bull. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 12.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.20 NCIS. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 48 Hours. 3.10 Star Trek: Enterprise. 4.05 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 Walker, Texas Ranger.

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The (82) 6.00 Unicorn.

7.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Becker.

10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Mom. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier.

6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.20 2 Broke Girls.

11.35 The Unicorn. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 2.30 Becker. 3.30 A Million Little Things. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Doctor Doctor. 2.00 Desperate Housewives. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat.

5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 13. St George Illawarra Dragons v Brisbane Broncos. 9.45 Thursday Night Knock Off. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 Tennis. French Open.

Day 5. 5.00 News Early Edition. 5.30 Today.

Tennis.

(52) 6.00 French Open. Day 4. Continued. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 The Gulf. Final. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Manuela.

(1957) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. 6.30 French Open Tennis Pre-Show. 7.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 5. 11.00 Law & Order. 12.00 Shades Of Blue. 1.00 Late Programs.

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(53) 6.00 11.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 12.00 Parenthood. 1.00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 3.00 Malcolm. 3.30 The Nanny. 4.00 3rd Rock From The Sun. 4.30 That ’70s Show. 5.00 Malcolm. 6.00 The Nanny.

6.30 3rd Rock From The Sun. 7.00 That ’70s Show. 7.30 MOVIE: Anger Management. (2003) 9.35 MOVIE: Bad Neighbours. (2014) 11.30 The Drop Off. 1.00 Big Fat Gypsy Weddings. 2.00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

10.00 NFL 100 Greatest. 11.00 A Football Life.

12.00 Ax Men. 1.00 Storage Wars Canada.

2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Highway Thru Hell. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Towies. 8.30 MOVIE: War For The Planet Of The Apes. (2017) Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn. 11.20 MOVIE: The Other Side Of The Door. (2016) 1.25 Late Programs.

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Home (62) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie. 7.00 Property Ladder UK. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Robbie Coltrane’s Critical Evidence. 2.00 Weekender. 2.30 Creek To Coast. 3.00 The Zoo. 3.30 Mighty Rivers.

4.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country.

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Inspector Morse. 10.50 Murdoch Mysteries.

11.50 Andrew Denton’s Interview. 12.50 The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 Late Programs.

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Neighborhood. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 10.00 Cheers. 11.00 Friends.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Charmed.

2.00 The Big Bang Theory. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier.

6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 The Conners. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 2.30 Becker. 3.30 A Million Little Things. 4.30 Home Shopping.

Headline (8) 6.00 News. 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 MasterChef Australia.

2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 MasterChef Australia. 8.40 How To Stay Married. 9.10 NCIS. 11.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.00 The Project. 1.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.00 Late Programs.

Tennis. French (52) 6.00 Open. Day 2.

Continued. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct.

10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 The Gulf. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless.

3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Spring In Park Lane. (1948) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow.

6.30 French Open Tennis Pre-Show. 7.00 Tennis. French Open. Day 3. 11.40 Law & Order.

12.35 Antiques Roadshow. 1.00 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 American Pickers. 9.00 Swamp People. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life.

12.00 Ax Men. 1.00 Carter’s W.A.R. 2.00 Heavy Rescue: 401. 3.00 Swamp People. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Highway Thru Hell. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol.

8.30 Outback Truckers. 9.30 MegaTruckers.

10.30 Supertruckers. 11.30 Late Programs.

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Home (62) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie. 7.00 Property Ladder UK. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 The Windsors. 2.30 Sydney Weekender. 3.00 The Zoo. 3.30 Air Crash Investigation. 4.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 Robbie Coltrane’s Critical Evidence. 11.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 12.30 Pie In The Sky. 1.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Headline News. 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 MasterChef Australia.

2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 MasterChef Australia. 9.00 Law & Order: SVU. 10.00 Blue Bloods. 11.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.00 The Project. 1.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.00 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 6.

Grand Prix of Italy. Replay. 9.30 Stories Of Bikes. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 12.00 Walker, Texas Ranger.

1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 NCIS: Los Angeles. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. 10.30 SEAL Team. 11.30 NCIS. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Walker, Texas Ranger.

3.00 Hawaii Five-0. 4.00 Late Programs.

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(82) 6.00 Frasier.

7.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier.

10.00 Becker. 11.00 The Big Bang Theory.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 2 Broke Girls. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 The Unicorn.

12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 2.00 Late Programs.

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Canobolas Lions once again provide new helmets for RDA < New helmets for Riding for the Disabled, Canobolas Lions Club members Pat Kilby and Bill McAuliffe with RDA volunteers (and, pony, Milly!)

Canobolas Lions Club have once again supported the Riding for the Disabled Association (NSW) Orange Centre.

They recently delivered the RDA Orange Centre with replacement riding helmets for those who attend each week.

Every five years, the helmets have to be replaced for health and safety reasons with the Lions helping-out for many years with this recurring cost.

“Canobolas Lions have been supporting RDA for nearly 40 years. When RDA was first being established in Orange, Lions helped with setting-up the fencing for the horse yards,” Bill McAuliffe, Charter Member of the Canobolas Lions Club told the RDA volunteers.

“The riders and volunteers from RDA would like to wholeheartedly thank the Canobolas Lions Club for their ongoing generous support,” a spokesperson for the club said.

Biggest Morning Tea: Tallwood’s hall chock-a-block — SAMUEL RODWELL —

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It is the centenary of the current building of the

Uniting Church at March (Burrendong Way) and all are invited to a celebration on Sunday 30th May at 2p.m.

Afternoon tea will be provided free of charge at Mortimer’s Winery.

All welcome.

After the icy-winter weather of late, the Tallwood community’s Biggest Morning Tea was treated to clear sunny skies as many smiling faces enjoyed warm cuppas, cakes, scones, and delicious sandwiches.

Cancer Council volunteer Peggy Adams, who was congratulated on her dedicated contribution in organising the big community event for many years said, “Gorgeous day for it because on the weekend it was shocking weather.”

“I would like to thank everyone for coming, Tallwood’s Biggest Morning Tea has been an event that has brought the community together. There are people from Blayney, some from Harden, and all around. It’s just wonderful,” Peggy says gleefully.

A big event to organise but for Peggy, she gets a lot of pleasure out of it and raising money for an important community cause. On average, every year they raise $2000 through their Biggest Morning Tea through raffle tickets and auction prizes that have donated by local businesses.

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THUMBS UP to Reel Memories in Centrepoint Arcade. What a great variety of oldtime records, dvds etc. They have the best display.

THUMBS UP and thank-you to the person who handed in my wallet found at the front of Canobolas Vets on Sunday 16th May.

THUMBS UP to Chris in the Building Section at Bunnings. Your willingness to help was much appreciated and your advice was invaluable.

Thanks for getting us the materials needed for our plastering job - and giving us instructions on how to use them. Thank you!

THUMBS UP to Bunnings Orange for their generous donation of a new barbecue to Orange East Public School. As always, it’s Bunnings to the rescue with snags! Thank-you on behalf of our entire school community.

THUMBS UP to Cabonne Carpets in Molong.

Their customer service is exceptional. They did a job for me well outside their scope of work. Can’t thank or praise them enough.

THUMBS UP to the Council for the clearing out of the canal behind the Robin Hood and repairing the footpath on the North Orange wetlands track - really encouraging to see this work being steadily completed.

THUMBS UP to Helen McAnulty for her weekly column in Orange City Life. The columns are so well written and interesting, that I just love reading them.

THUMBS DOWN to the person who complained about the editing team for ANZAC Day in OCL. Shame you had to complain about one negative instead of all the positives that were achieved by the ANZAC Day Committee. Great job ANZAC Day Committee.

THUMBS DOWN to teachers, coaches and parents who do not practice what they teach children about bullying and/or bullying people because of their race, religion, family or friends.

THUMBS UP to Geoff and his team at the Smoko Shed on having the best pies in town.

A HUGE ENTHUSIASTIC THUMBS UP to the Orange Show Society and its volunteers for giving us an amazing Show last weekend. Visitors turned up in their thousands and it was wonderful to see so many families and children laughing and having real fun on the rides etc., The Showground needs heaps of improvement but that will happen if more patrons go through the gate to generate cash so these works can be done. So come on Orange, let’s support our local Show so it can get better and better and afford to bring better entertainment for us all. The children participated with real energy, much better than having their little bodies and eyes glued to electronic devices!

More patrons through the gates, brings more fun for all of us.

A BIG THUMBS UP to Christine from the Bakery Counter of Woolworths. She was most helpful when I could not find the type of bread I required. It was no problem for her to come up with an alternative and her attitude was so appreciated. Feel she is a true asset to the company.

THUMBS UP to our painter Glenn - GHB Painting & Maintenance. Fantastic job done on our woodwork and 15 doors. So pleased and will recommend to anyone. Thank-you.

THUMBS UP to David at Orange Railway Station. Excellent service and wealth of knowledge.

Me being a novice at travelling to the domestic airport by train, David explained everything including how/where to get the Senior Opal Card to get from Central Station to the airport.

THUMBS UP to Orange City Life publisher Bob Holland and everyone else who works at the magazine. It’s a wonderful read, as usual!

THUMBS DOWN to some of the folk who live in the Ploughman’s Estate who feel it’s OK to litter the street with their fast-food takeaway items. The majority of us know better and therefore do better, which contributes to a beautiful part of Orange. You can do the same!

THUMBS DOWN to the coffee shop that plays electronic rubbish music (noise) at a volume level that annoys patrons. Time to look for a different coffee shop.

A BIG THUMBS DOWN to the person who “thumbs-downed” OCC for paying for a memorial painting at the skate park for a young man who was prominent in our community. I see no issue caused by having it there, and I imagine nor would a lot of other people. I fail to understand what is not positive about memorialising his image, or what part of it is inappropriate. Maybe be a little more considerate of his family and friends before posting something so inconsiderate.

THUMBS DOWN to the lady who sped through the intersection on Molong road and the highway on Wednesday 12/5/21 at 2pm in a silver Tesla, you cut me off and nearly hit my car, no indicator and I was going the speed limit, I hope someone caught you.

THUMBS UP to our son on the excellent job of mounting our TV on the wall. You are an amazing electrician. Thank you/, the TV is still on the wall.

THE BIGGEST EVER THUMBS UP to all those wonderful True Blue Aussies who organised the ANZAC tribute display at the Orange Show.

You are a rare breed just like our horses – the Walers. We thank you and to you Reg Goulding you are a shining, living example of Aussie spirit.

No matter what, you remain positive embodying the ANZAC get on with it outlook combined with that essential touch of larrikinism. Onya mate.

THUMBS DOWN to the local TV station for its daily misuse and abuse of the words ‘shocking’ and ‘outrageous’. Don’t you realise that overusing these words every bulletin to describe idiotic road behaviour, etc is numbing our sensitivity as well as dumbing-down your news reporting standards?

Stop the sensationalism and just give us the facts.

By the way, an extra minute on the coming week’s weather would be appreciated by all.

THUMBS UP to the local community who rallied to the urgent call by Buena Vista Opportunity Shop for donations of clothing, brica-brac, and linen. The support was wonderful, and keep it coming. A lot of people are in need and will continue to be so as the weather gets colder!

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